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In previous studies we showed that electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus of 15 day old rats significantly enhanced the learning of various tasks examined 4 weeks later. We first demonstrated that this stimulation improved the acquisition and extinction of a food-reinforced task (Velley and Cardo, 1977). In subsequent experiments, we observed the same effect on the acquisition and reversal of a light-dark discrimination whether appetitively or aversively reinforced as well as on the acquisition of a one way avoidance task (Velley et al., 1981b).
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Velley, L., Kempf, E., Velly, J., Cardo, B. (1985). Role of the Locus Coeruleus System in Behavioral Plasticity. In: Will, B.E., Schmitt, P., Dalrymple-Alford, J.C. (eds) Brain Plasticity, Learning, and Memory. Advances in Behavioral Biology, vol 28. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5003-3_10
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