Effects of performance and additional punishment on auditory-evoked brain activation patterns in discrimination learning – An auditory fMRI study in the Mongolian gerbil
Annika Michalek, Patricia Wenk, Nicole Angenstein, Eike Budinger · FENS Forum 2024
Tone discrimination is a behavioral task to investigate learning and memory processes in rodents. Additional punishment (aP) can be applied to enhance discrimination abilities; however, some animals have difficulties learning the task with aP. To understand this effect, we conducted auditory fMRI in Mongolian gerbils throughout discrimination training with rising (GO) and falling (noGo) frequency-modulated (FM) tones in ten daily sessions (S), enforced through foot shocks for “Miss”; a second group additionally received aP for “False‑Alarm”. Gerbils of each training group were divided into “go
ePoster · Neuroscience