Long-term callosal lesions and learning of a black-white discrimination by one-eyed rats. 1992

Y Ikeda, and M Sakai, and F Yagi
Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Science, Saga University, Japan.

We know from our previous studies that mature rats with monocular enucleation at birth (OEBs), as well as animals enucleated at maturity (OETs), were unable to learn a black-white discrimination when they were trained after lesions of the visual cortex contralateral to the remaining eye. Since it is well known that synaptic reorganization takes place in the adult rat brain through reactive synaptogenesis following deafferentation, we wondered if long-term callosal lesions in OEBs and OETs would bring out such synaptic reorganization in the visual cortex and, consequently, affect the outcome of the discrimination mentioned above. In the present study, two experiments were carried out: in Experiment 1 the previous experiment was replicated in that OEBs and OETs of 3 months of age were trained on the discrimination 10 days following unilateral visual cortex lesions; in Experiment 2, effects of callosal lesions made 10 weeks earlier either at 3 weeks of age or 13 weeks of age were investigated. The results were: 1) the findings of the previous experiment were confirmed; 2) the long-term callosal lesions facilitated the acquisition of discrimination in OEBs but not in OETs; 3) the facilitative effects were more prominent in OEBs with callosal lesions at 3 weeks of age than in those at 13 weeks of age. The findings were discussed in relation to possible synaptic reorganization produced in the visual cortex ipsilateral to the remaining eye following callosal lesions made 10 weeks earlier and also in relation to reorganization of the uncrossed visual pathways resulting from monocular enucleation at birth.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007858 Learning Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge. Phenomenography
D008297 Male Males
D003118 Color Perception Mental processing of chromatic signals (COLOR VISION) from the eye by the VISUAL CORTEX where they are converted into symbolic representations. Color perception involves numerous neurons, and is influenced not only by the distribution of wavelengths from the viewed object, but also by its background color and brightness contrast at its boundary. Color Perceptions,Perception, Color,Perceptions, Color
D004192 Discrimination, Psychological Differential response to different stimuli. Discrimination, Psychology,Psychological Discrimination
D004193 Discrimination Learning Learning that is manifested in the ability to respond differentially to various stimuli. Discriminative Learning,Discrimination Learnings,Discriminative Learnings,Learning, Discrimination,Learning, Discriminative
D000375 Aging The gradual irreversible changes in structure and function of an organism that occur as a result of the passage of time. Senescence,Aging, Biological,Biological Aging
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D014793 Visual Cortex Area of the OCCIPITAL LOBE concerned with the processing of visual information relayed via VISUAL PATHWAYS. Area V2,Area V3,Area V4,Area V5,Associative Visual Cortex,Brodmann Area 18,Brodmann Area 19,Brodmann's Area 18,Brodmann's Area 19,Cortical Area V2,Cortical Area V3,Cortical Area V4,Cortical Area V5,Secondary Visual Cortex,Visual Cortex Secondary,Visual Cortex V2,Visual Cortex V3,Visual Cortex V3, V4, V5,Visual Cortex V4,Visual Cortex V5,Visual Cortex, Associative,Visual Motion Area,Extrastriate Cortex,Area 18, Brodmann,Area 18, Brodmann's,Area 19, Brodmann,Area 19, Brodmann's,Area V2, Cortical,Area V3, Cortical,Area V4, Cortical,Area V5, Cortical,Area, Visual Motion,Associative Visual Cortices,Brodmanns Area 18,Brodmanns Area 19,Cortex Secondary, Visual,Cortex V2, Visual,Cortex V3, Visual,Cortex, Associative Visual,Cortex, Extrastriate,Cortex, Secondary Visual,Cortex, Visual,Cortical Area V3s,Extrastriate Cortices,Secondary Visual Cortices,V3, Cortical Area,V3, Visual Cortex,V4, Area,V4, Cortical Area,V5, Area,V5, Cortical Area,V5, Visual Cortex,Visual Cortex Secondaries,Visual Cortex, Secondary,Visual Motion Areas
D015349 Vision, Monocular Images seen by one eye. Monocular Vision,Monovision
D015353 Eye Enucleation The surgical removal of the eyeball leaving the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact. Enucleation Surgery,Enucleation Technique,Enucleation Surgeries,Enucleation Techniques,Enucleation, Eye,Eye Enucleations,Surgery, Enucleation

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