Campolattaro Matthew M, Freeman John H
Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Behav Neurosci. 2009 Dec;123(6):1346-52. doi: 10.1037/a0017314.
This experiment monitored eyelid responses bilaterally during delay eyeblink conditioning in rats. Rats were given paired or unpaired training with a tone or light conditioned stimulus (CS) and a unilateral periorbital shock unconditioned stimulus (US). Rats given paired training acquired high levels of conditioned responses (CRs), which occurred in both eyelids. However, acquisition was faster, and the overall percentage of CRs was greater in the eyelid that was ipsilateral to the US. CRs in the eyelid ipsilateral to the US also had shorter onset latencies and larger amplitudes than CRs in the contralateral eyelid. Both eyelids consistently showed high percentages of unconditioned responses (UR) to the US, and the UR amplitude decreased across training sessions in the paired group. The present study demonstrated that CRs occur robustly in both eyelids of rats given eyeblink conditioning, which is similar to previous findings in humans and monkeys. The results also showed that conditioning occurs more prominently in the eyelid that is ipsilateral to the US, which is similar to previous findings in humans, monkeys, dogs, and rabbits.
本实验在大鼠延迟眨眼条件反射过程中双侧监测眼睑反应。大鼠接受了音调或光条件刺激(CS)与单侧眶周电击非条件刺激(US)的配对或非配对训练。接受配对训练的大鼠获得了高水平的条件反应(CRs),双侧眼睑均出现这种反应。然而,学习过程更快,且与非条件刺激同侧的眼睑中条件反应的总体百分比更高。与非条件刺激同侧的眼睑中的条件反应相比,对侧眼睑中的条件反应的起始潜伏期更短、幅度更大。双侧眼睑对非条件刺激始终表现出高百分比的非条件反应(URs),且在配对组的训练过程中,非条件反应幅度下降。本研究表明,接受眨眼条件反射训练的大鼠双侧眼睑均能有力地产生条件反应,这与先前在人类和猴子中的发现相似。结果还表明,条件反射在与非条件刺激同侧的眼睑中表现得更为显著,这与先前在人类、猴子、狗和兔子中的发现相似。