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Science 28 May 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3674, pp. 1248 - 1250
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3674.1248
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Retrograde Amnesia from Electroconvulsive Shock in a One-Trial Appetitive Learning Task

S. S. Tenen 1

1 Medical Research Laboratories, Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., Groton, Connecticut

Rats deprived of water were placed, for 4-minute sessions, into a chamber containing a hole in one wall. After several sessions the number of times these rats explored the hole markedly decreased. Rats given access to water at the hole for a brief period explored the hole more frequently than controls, when they were tested later. This increase in hole explorations was abolished when the water reinforcement was followed by electro-convulsive shock but not when followed by foot shock.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Retrograde Amnesia.
S. L. Chorover, P. H. Schiller, and S. S. Tenen (1965)
Science 149, 1521
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