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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 115, Issue 1, Pages 26-32Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.115.1.26
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH61094] Funding Source: Medline
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The acquisition of context fear in rats is affected by variables such as the sex of the animal, the placement to shock interval (PSI), and preexposure to the context. The current experiments assessed the effects of these variables on context conditioning in mice (C57BL/6). In Experiment 1, mice were placed in a chamber and received a single shock 5 s, 20 s, 40 s, 60 s, 180 s, or 720 s later. Increasing the PSI produced corresponding increases in conditional freezing during the context test. In addition, male mice acquired more context conditioning than female mice did but only at intermediate PSIs. In Experiment 2, preexposure to the context before training alleviated the sex difference found with an intermediate PSI. The results are discussed in terms of configural learning theory and are argued to be contrary to the predictions of scalar expectancy theory.
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