scholarly journals Classical conditioning of the rabbit eyelid response with mossy fiber stimulation as the conditioned stimulus

1985 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Steinmetz ◽  
David G. Lavond ◽  
Richard F. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Mossy Fiber ◽  
Eyelid Response ◽  
Fiber Stimulation

Classical conditioning of rabbits 2-1/2 to 4 years old using mossy fiber stimulation as a CS

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 187-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana S. Woodruff-Pak ◽  
Joseph E. Steinmetz ◽  
Richard F. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Mossy Fiber ◽  
Fiber Stimulation

Rapid transfer of training occurs when direct mossy fiber stimulation is used as a conditioned stimulus for classical eyelid conditioning

1986 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 606-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Steinmetz ◽  
Daniel J. Rosen ◽  
Diana S. Woodruff-Pak ◽  
David G. Lavond ◽  
Richard F. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
Eyelid Conditioning ◽  
Mossy Fiber ◽  
Fiber Stimulation ◽  
Rapid Transfer ◽  
Classical Eyelid Conditioning

scholarly journals Non-synaptic signaling from cerebellar climbing fibers modulates Golgi cell activity

eLife ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela K Nietz ◽  
Jada H Vaden ◽  
Luke T Coddington ◽  
Linda Overstreet-Wadiche ◽  
Jacques I Wadiche
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Inhibition ◽  
Mossy Fiber ◽  
Molecular Layer ◽  
Cell Activity ◽  
Climbing Fiber ◽  
Climbing Fibers ◽  
In Vivo Studies ◽  
Golgi Cell ◽  
Golgi Cells ◽  
Fiber Stimulation

Golgi cells are the principal inhibitory neurons at the input stage of the cerebellum, providing feedforward and feedback inhibition through mossy fiber and parallel fiber synapses. In vivo studies have shown that Golgi cell activity is regulated by climbing fiber stimulation, yet there is little functional or anatomical evidence for synapses between climbing fibers and Golgi cells. Here, we show that glutamate released from climbing fibers activates ionotropic and metabotropic receptors on Golgi cells through spillover-mediated transmission. The interplay of excitatory and inhibitory conductances provides flexible control over Golgi cell spiking, allowing either excitation or a biphasic sequence of excitation and inhibition following single climbing fiber stimulation. Together with prior studies of spillover transmission to molecular layer interneurons, these results reveal that climbing fibers exert control over inhibition at both the input and output layers of the cerebellar cortex.

An Effective Paradigm for Conditioning Visual Perception in Human Subjects

Perception ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 663-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Davies ◽  
Geoffrey L Davies ◽  
Spencer Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Visual Perception ◽  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Unconditioned Stimulus ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Visual Responses

Repeated pairing of an auditory conditioned stimulus with a weak visual unconditioned stimulus produced extended image sequences and visual responses conditioned to the tone alone. The experiment is set into the context of Pavlov's view of Helmholtz's “unconscious inference” thus providing experimental evidence linking the higher mental process of perception with classical conditioning.

Failure and its Relationship to the Social Facilitation Effect: Evidence for a Learned Drive Interpretation of the Social Facilitation Effect

1978 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 823-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. Lombardo ◽  
John F. Catalano
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Factorial Design ◽  
Social Facilitation ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
The Other ◽  
Facilitation Effect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Motor ◽  
Drive Effect

Social facilitation theory states that an audience functions as a conditioned stimulus for generalized drive and that this drive effect is learned through classical conditioning. In the present study an attempt was made to condition classically an aversive drive to an audience by having a subject fail a task in front of an audience. A sample of 61 subjects took part in a 2 × 2 factorial design. Half of the subjects did not perform a first task but only a complex motor task. Half of these subjects performed in the presence of an audience, half without an audience present. Of those subjects exposed to failure on the first task, half performed a second complex motor task in the presence of the same audience. Results indicated that performance of subjects who failed a first task in the presence of an audience and then performed the second task in the presence of that audience was significantly poorer than all of the other groups. The findings were taken as evidence that the social facilitation effect may be based on an aversive learned drive.

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