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Destruction of RN does not prevent the performance of established motor-food reflexes to a natural conditioned stimulus in cats. It leads only to a temporary disturbance of the accuracy and skill of acquired movements.
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In animals trained to approach the left-hand feeding bowl and press the pedal in response to one signal and to approach the right-hand bowl in response to another signal, destruction of RN leads to the appearance of mistakes in choice of the side of reinforcement (in 4–18% of cases) and to doubling of the latent periods of the responses. These disturbances are of short-term character (15–20 days).
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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 684–691, July–August, 1979.
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Gambaryan, L.S., Madatova, I.R., Garibyan, A.A. et al. Motor food conditioning before and after destruction of the red nucleus in cats. Neurosci Behav Physiol 11, 261–268 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01184420
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