[Behavioral reactions of the cat to increasing complication of information load]

On the base of a right-left-discrimination test with acoustic signals and feeding affirmation with 6 cats the influence on their behavioral reactions was studied under increasing complication of information load caused by varying delays between the conditioned signal and the conditioned reaction or by decreasing the loudspeaker-to-loudspeaker distance. It is pointed out that an increase of information load above an optimum level causes increasing licking time, change of principles of central nervous integrative processes with occurrence of stereotypic reactions and suppression of feeding motivation.