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Powers, A. S., Hogue, P., Lynch, C., Gattuso, B., Lissek, S., & Nayal, C. (2009). Role of acetylcholine in negative patterning in turtles (chrysemys picta). Behavioral Neuroscience, 123(4), 804–809.
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| Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: Powers2009 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Physiologie = physiology, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises, Verhalten = ethology Creators: Gattuso, Hogue, Lissek, Lynch, Nayal, Powers Collection: Behavioral Neuroscience |
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Turtles were run on a negative patterning task involving 2 positive elements, a key with white stripes on a black background, and a solid red key, and a compound stimulus combining the 2 elements, white stripes on a red background. Injections of scopolamine, methylscopolamine, or saline were started at the same time that the compound stimulus was introduced, after the animals had been autoshaped to press the key for each of the elements. Scopolamine disrupted the learning of negative patterning, but methylscopolamine had no effect. In contrast, learning of a simple discrimination between the elements was not affected by scopolamine. These results show that muscarinic cholinergic receptors are involved in the learning of negative patterning in turtles.
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