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Retrograde amnesia and reconsolidation of a context-no US association

Barnes, Gary W.

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2011, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Maintenance and organization of memories is of paramount importance to understanding the brain. Evidence suggests that memories persist after amnesic trauma, but are no longer accessible to the animal due to failure of retrieval mechanisms. In Experiment 1 latent inhibition of a context-no US association was demonstrated using a PA paradigm. The experiment failed to demonstrate amnesia for this association with hypothermic trauma. Experiment 1 did reveal an enhancement of the LI effect when reactivation of the context-no US association was followed by hypothermic body-cooling treatment. Experiment 2 failed to demonstrate any effect of varying the “age” of the “context-no US” association in conjunction with body-cooling treatment. Experiment 2 also failed to demonstrate any effect of varying the duration that a context-no US and a context-US association were processed simultaneously, in conjunction with hypothermia treatment, on latent inhibition.
David Riccio, PhD (Committee Chair)
Stephen Fountain, PhD (Committee Member)
Benjamin Newberry, PhD (Committee Member)
Richard Hirschman, PhD (Committee Member)
Brent Bruot, PhD (Committee Member)
Douglas Kline, PhD (Committee Member)
62 p.

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  • Barnes, G. W. (2011). Retrograde amnesia and reconsolidation of a context-no US association [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1311122134

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Barnes, Gary. Retrograde amnesia and reconsolidation of a context-no US association. 2011. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1311122134.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Barnes, Gary. "Retrograde amnesia and reconsolidation of a context-no US association." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1311122134

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)