[Interaction between heterogeneous streams of excitation in the process of fixation and extraction of information in the central nervous system]

Zh Vyssh Nerv Deiat Im I P Pavlova. 1981 Sep-Oct;31(5):1018-28.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Neuronal reactions in the hippocampus and sensorimotor area were recorded in alert rabbits during conditioning to light flashes of different frequency, reinforced by isochronous electro-cutaneous stimulation. Changes of responses to light flashes (CS) as compared with those to an inhibitory stimulus, were observed in the sensorimotor neurones which reacted to the reinforcement by a convergence or frequency-nonspecific type of response, and in the hippocampal neurones reacting to electro-cutaneous stimulation: they were manifested in imitation by CS action of frequency-nonspecific components of response to reinforcement. The results obtained corroborate the concept of appearance in response to a stimulus of heterogeneous excitation flow: modality-specific and modality-nonspecific, as well as of a substantial role of their convergence in the integration of neurones during fixation and reproduction of information in the CNS.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain Mapping
  • Conditioning, Classical / physiology*
  • Electrophysiology
  • Electroshock
  • Hippocampus / physiology*
  • Inhibition, Psychological*
  • Light
  • Motor Cortex / physiology*
  • Rabbits
  • Somatosensory Cortex / physiology*