[Formation of alimentary conditioned reflexes with probable reinforcement in rats with frontal cortex injuries]

Alimentary conditioned response to the sound of turning of the feeding-rack reinforced in 33 and 25 per cent of cases was formed faster in rats with frontal cortical lesion than in intact animals. The results obtained permit to suppose that during integrative brain activity the frontal areas of the cerebral cortex participate in organization of behavior with a high probability of reinforcement.