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  • Title: The effect of home cage stimuli on acquisition and retention of an active avoidance response in previsual rats.
    Author: Misanin JR, Lariviere NA, Turns AE, Turns LE, Hinderliter CF.
    Journal: Dev Psychobiol; 1986 Jan; 19(1):37-47. PubMed ID: 3699250.
    Abstract:
    The effect of home cage environmental stimuli on learning and the effects on retention of the presence or absence of these familiar contextual training stimuli during the retention test (Experiment 1) or during the retention interval (Experiment 2) were examined using 10-day-old rats, a multidirectional active avoidance task, and a 30-min retention interval. Home cage environmental stimuli were found to improve learning. A change in stimuli immediately after training, during the 30-min retention interval, was found to have a greater impact on retention performance than stimulus change introduced at the time of the retention test. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to ontogenetic differences in retention performance and theories of forgetting.
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