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Science 13 April 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4082, pp. 208 - 210
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4082.208
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Multiphasic Retention Deficits at Periodic Intervals after Passive-Avoidance Learning

Frank A. Holloway 1 and Richard Wansley 1

1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190

Aftetr one-trial passive-avoidance training, indepelenet groups of rats tested promptly after training or at successive 6-hour intervals displayed a repetitive pattern of high then low retention scores. These results suggest that some physiological rhythm may interact with retention performance.


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