The effects of excitotoxic lesions of the basal forebrain on the acquisition, retention and serial reversal of visual discriminations in marmosets

Neuroscience
A C RobertsK J Page

Abstract

The effects of N-methyl-D-aspartate-induced lesions of the basal forebrain (which included the cholinergic cells of the nucleus basalis of Meynert) were studied on three aspects of visual discrimination; learning, retention and reversal performance, in the marmoset. Neurobiological investigations revealed that the lesion produced large reductions in choline acetyltransferase activity within anterior regions of cortex, particularly prefrontal. In Experiment 1 lesioned animals showed impaired retention, one week after surgery, of a visual discrimination learned immediately prior to surgery and subsequently showed impaired performance over a series of reversals. The reversal deficit could be characterized as a tendency to perseverate on the previously correct stimulus on the first reversal and as a failure to show serial reversal learning on subsequent reversals. Acquisition of a novel discrimination was not impaired five weeks after surgery. As time of testing may have been a confounding factor, in Experiment 2 the effects of the same lesion on new learning were examined immediately following surgery and the effects on retention a month later. The lesion was found to disrupt new learning but did not affect retention. From the two...Continue Reading

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