Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The effect of early partial decortication on visual and auditory conditioned reflexes in chickens

  • Physiology
  • Published:
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine Aims and scope

Summary

Removal of the cerebral hemispheres, including the corpora striata, in young chicks has a marked effect on their subsequent conditioned reflex activity. The stability and regularity of the conditioned reflexes is reduced, and differentiation of the visual and of the auditory conditioned signals deteriorates. Removal of the rudimentary cortical areas in young chicks has little effect on their subsequent reflex activity, and does not affect accurate visual or auditory differentiation. Disturbances of visual and auditory analysis caused by injury to the corpora striata are found also in adult hens, but do not occur when only the rudimentary cortical areas are destroyed. Cortical areas removed from young chicks regenerate, while there is no recovery from damage to the corpora striata.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

Literature Cited

  1. B. I. Bayandurov, The Trophic Function of the Brain. Original Russian pagination, See C. B. Translation. Medgiz, 1949.

  2. I. S. Beritov, Pflugers Arch. 1926, Bd. 213, S. 370.

    Google Scholar 

  3. N. N. Dzidzishvili, in book: Reports of the 2nd Trans-Caucasian Congress of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology Original Russian pagination. See C. B. Translation. Izd. AN Georgian SSR. Tbilisi, 1956.

    Google Scholar 

  4. A. I. Karamyan, The Evolutionary Function of the Cerebellum and Cerebral Hemispheres Original Russian pagination. See C. B. Translation. Moscow, 1956.

  5. A. B. Kogan and T. V. Ivannikova, Byull. éksptl. biol. i med. volume 39, No. 3, pp. 6–9 (1955).

    Google Scholar 

  6. L. A. Milyutina, in book: Research Reports of the 2nd Moscow State Medical Institute In Russian., Moscow, 1958. p. 69.

  7. V. V. Petelina, in book: Problems of the Comparative Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity In Russian., edited by D. Biryukov, Institute of Evolutionary Morphology, AMN SSSR, Leningrad, 1958.

    Google Scholar 

  8. A. V. Polezhaev, A. I. Matveeva and N. A. Zakharova, Reports of the AN SSSR In Russian., volume 113, p. 472 (1957).

    Google Scholar 

  9. M. Schrader, Pflugers Arch. 1889, Bd. 240, S. 503.

    Google Scholar 

  10. P. Flourens, Recherches expér. sur les fonctions du systeme nerveux. Paris, 1842.

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Human and Animal Physiology, Rostovskii State University, Rostovskii, USSR

    O. E. Panomareva

Authors
  1. O. E. Panomareva
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Panomareva, O.E. The effect of early partial decortication on visual and auditory conditioned reflexes in chickens. Bull Exp Biol Med 48, 1330–1337 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00788342

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00788342

Keywords

Search

Navigation