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Title
  • en Interaction of inhibitory and facilitatory effects of conditioning trials on long-term memory formation
Creator
    • en Hosono, Shouhei
    • en Matsumoto, Yukihisa
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  • NDC 460
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  • Abstract en Animals learn through experience and consolidate the memories into long-time storage. Conditioning parameters to induce protein synthesis-dependent long-term memory (LTM) have been the subject of extensive studies in many animals. Here we found a case in which a conditioning trial inhibits or facilitates LTM formation depending on the intervals from preceding trials. We studied the effects of conditioning parameters on LTM formation in olfactory conditioning of maxillary-palpi extension response with sucrose reward in the cockroach Periplaneta americana. We found, at first, that translation-and transcription- dependent LTM forms 1 h after training, the fastest so far reported in insects. Second, we observed that multipletrial training with an intertrial interval (ITI) of 20 or 30 sec, often called massed training, is more effective than spaced training for LTM formation, an observation that differs from the results of most studies in other animals. Third, we found that a conditioning trial inhibits LTM formation when the intervals from preceding trials were in the range of 10-16 min. This inhibitory effect is pairing-specific and is not due to decreased motivation for learning (overtraining effect). To our knowledge, no similar inhibition of LTM formation by a conditioning trial has been reported in any animals. We propose a model to account for the effects of trial number and ITIs on LTM formation. Olfactory conditioning in cockroaches should provide pertinent materials in which to study neuronal and molecular mechanisms underlying the inhibitory and facilitatory processes for LTM formation.
Publisher en Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Date
    Issued2016-12
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type VoR
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/67765
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  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.043513.116
Journal
    • PISSN 1072-0502
      • en Learning & memory
      • Volume Number23 Issue Number12 Page Start669 Page End678
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