Learning-induced plasticity in the medial geniculate nucleus is expressed during paradoxical sleep.
1993
Fear conditioning to an acoustic stimulus produces increases in tone-evoked discharges of neurons in the medial division of the medial geniculate nucleus (MG). This study examined the responses of MG neurons to a conditioned tone presented in paradoxical sleep (PS). After 1 session of habituation to a tone, awake rats underwent conditioning in 3 sessions during which the tone was used as the conditioned stimulus preceding a footshock. Control rats received unpaired presentations of tone and shock. The same tone, which never awakened the animal, was presented during PS following each daily session. Responses of MG neurons to the tone in PS were increased after conditioning
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