Abstract
Rats were tested in a Lashley III maze, the floor of which was heated. The animals had to learn to negotiate it in order to gain access to the unheated goal box.
In the early period of training the animals were able to find the goal box rapidly and without error. Their performance then deteriorated, in a particular way which strongly evoked a conflict behavior.
This deterioration in performance was progressively reduced by oxazepam administration (8 mg/kg/day).
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Soubrié, P., Schoonhoed, L., Simon, P. et al. Conflict behavior in a heated-floor maze: Effects of oxazepam. Psychopharmacologia 26, 317–320 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00422708
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