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  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Learning and Memory

Background:

  • Autoshaping is a learning paradigm where a neutral stimulus predicts a reward.
  • Sign-tracking, a component of autoshaping, involves approaching a stimulus predicting reward.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural substrates of sign-tracking behavior in an autoshaping task.
  • To differentiate the roles of the amygdala and dorsal striatum in conditioned responding.

Main Methods:

  • Rats were trained in an autoshaping task with lever insertion as the conditioned stimulus (CS) and food as the unconditioned stimulus (US).
  • Lesions were made to the dorsolateral striatum, dorsomedial striatum, amygdala (basolateral and central nuclei), and dorsal hippocampus.
  • Behavioral measures included lever pressing and magazine approach.

Main Results:

  • Dorsolateral striatum lesions abolished lever pressing (sign-tracking) and increased magazine approach.
  • Dorsomedial striatum lesions attenuated lever pressing.
  • Combined amygdala lesions increased latency to lever press but not the number of presses.
  • Dorsal hippocampus lesions had no significant effect.

Conclusions:

  • Sign-tracking appears to involve parallel, dissociable processes.
  • The amygdala may mediate conditioned orienting and approach.
  • The dorsal striatum may mediate the instrumental response of lever pressing.