PSY397H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fear Conditioning, Selective Breeding, Rodent
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Lecture: behavioral measures of neural plasticity of rodents. Ways to reduce fear in mice: by handling them carefully, and not lifting them by their tail, by letting them experience a home environment. Variations of fear conditioning: a) cue plus contextual fear conditioning, training, cued test and contextextual test, b) context, training , contextual test, c) context discrimination, training, test in context 1 and context 2. Fear conditioning automated recording: high throughout automated recording of activity. If both are learned than the: if it only shows one then it shows that it isn"t learning and it is just showing motor function. Spatial learning: several maze designs: types of rodent mazes. Morris water maze: dickenson was actually the one that created the model of the maze, the water prevents olfactory cues from developing. A hippocampal dependent spatial learning and a control task: hidden platform task (spatial learning, it has a big spatial cue, visible platform task (non spatial learning)
