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  • Title: Trace conditioning in 1-day-old rats.
    Author: Bordner KA, Spear NE.
    Journal: Dev Psychobiol; 2006 Jan; 48(1):58-70. PubMed ID: 16381027.
    Abstract:
    A recent test of 3-hr-old rats indicated surprisingly effective trace conditioning with a 60-s trace interval. The present study tested similar trace conditioning in pups 24-hr-old, in the absence of circumstances that immediately follow birth and might promote cognition. In Experiment 1 pairing an olfactory CS with a gustatory US yielded conditioning despite a 120-s trace. Experiment 2 determined that ambient CS odor remaining in the vicinity of the conditioning surface was not sufficient to result in the olfactory-gustatory association. Experiment 3 applied conditioning procedures more like those previously used for the 3-hr-old infant and more stringent than those applied in Experiment 1. With these procedures the 24-hr-old pups nevertheless acquired the CS-US contingency with a 60-s trace. Perhaps perinatal tolerance for long trace intervals is linked to their substantial experience in dealing with odors and tastes prenatally and postnatally.
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