Time-limited involvement of dorsal hippocampus in unimodal discriminative contextual conditioning

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• 作者：Teresa Camille Parsons ; Tim Otto
• 关键词：Discriminative contextual conditioning ; Hippocampus ; Temporary inactivation ; Retrograde gradient
• 刊名：Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：November 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：94
• 期：4
• 页码：481-487
• 全文大小：411 K

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Converging evidence examining the effects of post-training manipulations of the hippocampus suggests that the hippocampus may play a time-limited role in the maintenance of a variety of forms of memory. In particular, either lesions or inactivation of the dorsal hippocampus results in many cases in a time-limited retrograde impairment in nondiscriminative contextual conditioning paradigms. However, the extent to which hippocampal manipulations result in a time-limited retrograde amnesia for a variety of forms of learning has recently been called into question (reviewed in Sutherland, Sparks, & Lehmann (2010)). The present study examined the effect of inactivation of the dorsal hippocampus either 7, 28, or 42 days following training in an explicitly nonspatial, discriminative contextual conditioning paradigm ([Otto and Poon, 2006] and [Parsons and Otto, 2008]). Inactivation of the dorsal hippocampus resulted in a significant deficit in the expression of contextual conditioning at 7 and 28 days, but not 42 days, following training. Importantly, inactivation of the hippocampus did not affect either baseline freezing levels or conditioning to an explicit CS. Together with previous data exploring hippocampal contributions to discriminative unimodal contextual conditioning, these data suggest that the hippocampus may play a particularly prominent role in the temporary maintenance of memory in discriminative contextual paradigms.