Flashcards in Lesburgueres 2011 Deck (9)
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social transmission of food preference steps
• Step 1: Demonstrator rat is eating some food
• Step 2: Social interaction takes place without any food present
○ Observer (the test rat) interacts with the demonstrator and smells the other rats breath
○ Smells cumin
• Step 3: Delay
•Step 4: Observer is given a test and given the choice btw two options
○ Option 1: food that smells like the one the demonstrator ate
-Option 2: other food
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T or F: Rats are very social and learn from each other from olfaction, and are afraid novel foods .Rats are very wary of things (especially new food)
True
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what's the ida of the experiment
Idea is that if the rats remember the social interaction they will eat the food with the smell similar to that of the demonstrators
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what the rat would have eaten if they have never been exposed to the breath of a cumin eating rat
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two types of receptors important for memory
AMPA and NMDA
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AMPA
-not critical for learning , but it precedes NDMA
-Necessary for activation of NDMA
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NMDA
-is critical for memory
-If AMPA is inhibited then it blocks NDMA from being activated
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Tagging
Cell A and cell B, interact with one other early on
-Cell A: HPC
-Cell B: OFC
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