Nontrace Avoidance Conditioning
Objective: To establish a conditioned avoidance response in goldfish without temporal cues and to assess retention of this response following brain lesions
This is a Nontrace Avoidance Conditioning protocol using goldfish as the model organism. The procedure involves 2 procedural steps. Extracted from a 2004 paper published in Journal of Neuroscience.
Model and subjects
goldfish
Study window
Estimated timing pending
Core workflow
Nontrace Avoidance Conditioning Training • Retention Testing
Primary readouts
- Retention of conditioned avoidance response
- Effects of medial pallium lesion on avoidance retention
- Effects of lateral pallium lesion on avoidance retention
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Nontrace Avoidance Conditioning Training
Fish were trained in nontrace avoidance conditioning to establish a conditioned avoidance response without temporal cues between the conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus
Note: This procedure establishes avoidance learning without requiring temporal discrimination between stimuli
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“fish were trained in nontrace avoidance conditioning”
Retention Testing
Following training, retention of the avoidance response was tested after brain lesions (medial or lateral telencephalic pallium ablation)
Note: Retention was assessed to determine which brain regions are involved in emotional versus spatial/temporal memory systems
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“studying the effects of ablation of the medial telencephalic pallia (MP) and lateral telencephalic pallia (LP) in goldfish on the retention of a conditioned avoidance response”