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The main purpose of the study was to establish physiological regularities and neurochemical mechanisms of the participation of cortical neurons of cats in performance of food-seeking behavioral systemoquanta. The study shows that individual stages of food-seeking systemoquantum are characterized by different sensitivity of the visual cortex to neuromediators. The author considers combination of methods of functional neurochemistry and the theory of behavioral quantization to be advantageous in a certain way, because it reveals a possible association between neurochemical mechanisms of involvement of individual neurons and the stages of the development of behavioral systemoquantum.
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