Prefrontal electroencephalographic activity during the working memory processes involved in a sexually motivated task in male rats
| Autor: | María Esther Olvera-Cortés, Miguel Angel Guevara, Marisela Hernández-González, Mayra Linné Almanza-Sepúlveda, Blanca Erika Gutiérrez-Guzmán |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Time Factors Interference theory Statistics as Topic Prefrontal Cortex Electroencephalography Brain mapping Functional Laterality Task (project management) Sexual Behavior Animal medicine Animals Rats Wistar Reinforcement Prefrontal cortex Maze Learning Analysis of Variance Brain Mapping Motivation medicine.diagnostic_test Fourier Analysis Working memory General Neuroscience Brain Waves Rats Memory Short-Term Female Analysis of variance Psychology psychological phenomena and processes Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Experimental brain research. 221(2) |
| ISSN: | 1432-1106 |
| Popis: | The prefrontal cortex is involved in working memory functions, and several studies using food or drink as rewards have demonstrated that the rat is capable of performing tasks that involve working memory. Sexual activity is another highly-rewarding, motivated behaviour that has proven to be an efficient incentive in classical operant tasks. The objective of this study was to determine whether the functional activity of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) changes in relation to the working memory processes involved in a sexually motivated task performed in male rats. Thus, male Wistar rats implanted in the mPFC were subjected to a nonmatching-to-sample task in a T-maze using sexual interaction as a reinforcer during a 4-day training period. On the basis of their performance during training, the rats were classified as ‘good-learners’ or ‘bad-learners’. Only the good-learner rats showed an increase in the absolute power of the 8–13 Hz band during both the sample and test runs; a finding that could be related to learning of the working memory elements entailed in the task. During the maintenance phase only (i.e., once the rule had been learned well), the good-learner rats also showed an increased correlation of the 8–13 Hz band during the sample run, indicating that a high degree of coupling between the prefrontal cortices is necessary for the processing required to allow the rats to make correct decisions in the maintenance phase. Taken together, these data show that mPFC activity changes in relation to the working memory processes involved in a sexually motivated task in male rats. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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