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Ether anesthesia administered either 100 or 3160 sec after footshock significantly improved discriminated avoidance responding and reduced response latency only at the longer interval Ether anesthesia as a highly aversive stimulus accounts for the results better than the hypothesis that ether disrupts memory consolidation.
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1. We thank Carol Vanderleck and Frances Aldercotte for running some of the Ss. This research was supported by Grant No. 244 from the National Research Council of Canada and Grant No. 161 from the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
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Suboski, M.D., Litner, J. & Black, M. Further on the effects of ether anesthesia following one-trial discriminated avoidance learning. Psychon Sci 10, 161–162 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331460
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