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Rats of Roman High and Low Avoidance strains were trained in two tasks i.e. the Hebb-Williams maze and shuttle box. Immediately after each daily trial the experimental subjects were injected with 0.8 mg/kg dose of nicotine tartrate. Distilled water was administered to a control group. The results suggest that maze learning was enhanced by nicotine. The same dose of nicotine tartrate had no effect on the escape-avoidance task.
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The work was carried out at the Department of Psychology of the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
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Garg, M. The effect of nicotine on two different types of learning. Psychopharmacologia 15, 408–414 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00403716
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