Source Paper
The Effect of Lesions of the Basolateral Amygdala on Instrumental Conditioning
Bernard W. Balleine, A. Simon Killcross, Anthony Dickinson
Journal of Neuroscience • 2003
Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain
Objective: To assess whether basolateral amygdala (BLA) lesioned rats can discriminate between two different instrumental actions (lever pressing and chain pulling) by acquiring a heterogeneous instrumental chain
This is a Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain protocol using rat as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps, 1 equipment items. Extracted from a 2003 paper published in Journal of Neuroscience.
Model and subjects
rat • Not specified • unknown • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
Estimated timing pending
Core workflow
Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain Training
Primary readouts
- Acquisition of lever pressing action
- Acquisition of chain pulling action
- Ability to discriminate between the two instrumental actions
- Performance comparison between BLA lesioned rats and sham control rats
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Heterogeneous Instrumental Chain Training
Rats were trained to acquire a heterogeneous instrumental chain involving both lever pressing and chain pulling actions to test their ability to discriminate between two different instrumental actions
Note: This experiment (Experiment 3) was designed to assess whether BLA lesioned rats could discriminate the two instrumental actions, as a control for deficits observed in previous experiments
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“lesioned rats were similar to shams in their acquisition of a heterogeneous instrumental chain involving lever pressing and chain pulling (experiment 3)”