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Science 27 March 1959:
Vol. 129. no. 3352, pp. 842 - 843
DOI: 10.1126/science.129.3352.842-a
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Transient Memory in Albino Rats

ROBERT THOMPSON 1

1 Southeast Louisiana Hospital, Mandeville

Rats were trained on the repeated reversal of a position habit in a T-maze. Test trials of memory were given at varying intervals after the completion of each reversal. Those animals exhibiting a consistent preference for one side failed to retain the effects of training to the non-preferred side for more than a few minutes.

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