Publication Date:
1987-11-06
Description:
Stimulation of one side of the olfactory system during training with odor-milk pairings in neonatal rats results in their ability to recall an odor memory by using the trained but not the untrained side of the brain. In 12-day-old rats, olfactory learning can be recalled by stimulation of either the trained or untrained side. The development of bilateral recall reflects the maturation of olfactory commissural pathways that provide access to the olfactory memory stored on the contralateral side. Furthermore, the commissural pathways need not be present at the time of memory formation but can establish new and specific access to already existing olfactory memories.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kucharski, D -- Hall, W G -- HD17458/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- MH09436/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Nov 6;238(4828):786-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3672125" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aging
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Animals
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Animals, Newborn
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Brain/growth & development/physiology
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Central Nervous System/*growth & development
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Functional Laterality
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*Memory
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Milk
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*Odors
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Olfactory Pathways/*growth & development/physiology
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Rats
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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