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Title:		Independence of first- and second-order memories in newborn rabbits
Author(s):		Coureaud G; Languille S; Joly V; Schaal B; Hars B;
Address:		"Equipe Ethologie Developpementale et Psychologie Cognitive, Centre des Sciences du Gout et de l'Alimentation, UMR 6265 CNRS/INRA/Universite de Bourgogne/Agrosup Dijon, 21000 Dijon, France. gerard.coureaud@u-bourgogne.fr"
Journal Title:		Learn Mem
Year:		2011
Volume:		20110520
Issue:		6
Page Number:		401 - 404
DOI:		10.1101/lm.2145111
ISSN/ISBN:		1549-5485 (Electronic) 1072-0502 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The mammary pheromone promotes the acquisition of novel odorants (CS1) in newborn rabbits. Here, experiments pinpoint that CS1 becomes able to support neonatal learning of other odorants (CS2). We therefore evaluated whether these first- and second-order memories remained dependent after reactivation. Amnesia induced after CS2 recall selectively blocked this memory, when recall and amnesia of CS1 left the souvenir of CS2 safe; this finding partially differed from results obtained in adult mammals. Thus, in this model of neonatal appetitive odor learning, second-order memory seems to depend on first-order memory for its formation but not for its maintenance"
Keywords:		"Aging/psychology Amnesia/psychology Animals Animals, Newborn/*psychology Anisomycin/pharmacology Conditioning, Operant/physiology Female Learning/physiology Male Memory/*physiology Mental Recall/physiology Motivation/physiology Odorants Pheromones/pharmac;"
Notes:		"MedlineCoureaud, Gerard Languille, Solene Joly, Virginie Schaal, Benoist Hars, Bernard eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't 2011/05/24 Learn Mem. 2011 May 20; 18(6):401-4. doi: 10.1101/lm.2145111. Print 2011 Jun"