The medial prefrontal cortex and memory of cue location in the rat

Title
The medial prefrontal cortex and memory of cue location in the rat
Publication Date
2010
Author(s)
Rawson, Timothy
O'Kane, Michael
Talk, Andrew
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3449-5756
Email: atalk@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:atalk
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Academic Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1016/j.nlm.2009.09.003
UNE publication id
une:7665
Abstract
We developed a single-trial cue-location memory task in which rats experienced an auditory cue while exploring an environment. They then recalled and avoided the sound origination point after the cue was paired with shock in a separate context. Subjects with medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) lesions made no such avoidance response, but both lesioned and control subjects avoided the cue itself when presented at test. A follow up assessment revealed no spatial learning impairment in either group. These findings suggest that the rodent mPFC is required for incidental learning or recollection of the location at which a discrete cue occurred, but is not required for cue recognition or for allocentric spatial memory.
Link
Citation
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 93(1), p. 132-136
ISSN
1095-9564
1074-7427
Start page
132
End page
136

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