Distinctions in the neuronal activity of the rabbit limbic cortex under different training strategies

Limbic cortex neurons as well as the temporal characteristics of the behavioral cycles were recorded in rabbits trained to perform a food-procuring behavior according to different strategies which were distinguished by the sequence of the stages of training. It was demonstrated that additional activations can appear in the nonspecific activity of neurons specialized relative to one of those behavioral acts for which the animal was trained directly in the experimental cage. Such activations appeared, depending upon the training strategy, during different types of the animal's behavior; the temporal characteristics of the behavioral cycles also varied. An inference is drawn regarding the activating influence of preceding experience on the behavioral acts formed directly after it.