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Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Neonatal MK-801 Treatment on Nonspatial Learning by Griesbach, Grace S., Amsel, Abram

“…These experiments observed the immediate and long-term effects of neonatal treatment with MK-801 on patterned single alternation (PSA), a form of nonspatial,…”
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Development of vicarious trial-and-error behavior in odor discrimination learning in the rat: relation to hippocampal function? by Hu, Dan, Griesbach, Grace, Amsel, Abram

“…Previous work from our laboratory has suggested that hippocampal electrolytic lesions result in a deficit in simultaneous, black-white discrimination learning…”
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Frustrative nonreward in partial reinforcement and discrimination learning: Some recent history and a theoretical extension by Amsel, Abram

“…Support is presented "for the position that an "active' role must be assigned to nonreward in both motivation and inhibition . . . . [Similarities] and…”
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Memory-Based Learning in Preweanling and Adult Rats After Infantile X-Irradiation-Induced Hippocampal Granule Cell Hypoplasia by Diaz-Granados, Jaime L, Greene, Paul L, Amsel, Abram

“…Infantile exposure to x-irradiation induced severe hippocampal granule cell hypoplasia in preweanling and young adult rats. Hippocampally damaged pups, tested…”
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The role of frustrative nonreward in noncontinuous reward situations by Amsel, Abram

“…The theoretical properties ascribed to the various fractional anticipatory goal reactions (fractional anticipatory reward, fractional anticipatory punishment)…”
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Frustration Theory-Many Years Later by Amsel, Abram

“…The role of frustration in learning theory, in the invigoration of behavior and in the development of learned persistence and discrimination learning, is…”
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Hippocampal function in the rat: cognitive mapping or vicarious trial and error? by Amsel, A

“…The most prominent hypothesis of hippocampal function likens the hippocampus to a "cognitive map," a term used by a famous learning theorist, E. C. Tolman, to…”
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NMDA Receptor Subunit Expression After Combined Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Ethanol by Nixon, Kimberly, Hughes, Peter D., Amsel, Abram, Leslie, Steven W.

“…: Background: The N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate receptor (NMDAR), a subtype of glutamate receptor, is essential for normal neurodevelopment. The brain growth spurt,…”
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Endnotes by Amsel, Abram

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A Simple Test of the Vicarious Trial-and-Error Hypothesis of Hippocampal Function by Hu, Dan, Amsel, Abram

“…Vicarious trial-and-error (VTE) is a term that Muenzinger and Tolman used to describe the rat's conflict-like behavior before responding to choice. Recently,…”
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Selective association and the anticipatory goal response mechanism as explanatory concepts in learning theory by Amsel, Abram

“…In the first experiment rats learned "a T-maze on the basis of discrimination between two irrelevant drive stimuli, one resulting from food deprivation, the…”
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Selective activity enhancement and persistence in weanling rats after hippocampal X-irradiation in infancy: possible relevance for ADHD by Diaz-Granados, J L, Greene, P L, Amsel, A

“…We examined the effects of focal X-irradiation of the hippocampus in infancy on the partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) in weanling rats in a runway…”
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Précis ofFrustration Theory: An Analysis of Dispositional Learning and Memory by Amsel, A

“…This is a précis of a book on frustration theory, whose explanatory domain includes a family of phenomena that have been summarized by the terms dispositional…”
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Effects of Early Postnatal Alcohol Exposure on Learning in the Developing Rat: Replication With Intubation Method of Delivery by Lilliquist, Michael W., Highfield, David A., Amsel, Abram

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Aversion learning in 5-day-old rats: Taste-toxicosis and texture-shock associations by Gemberling, Gail A, Domjan, Michael, Amsel, Abram

“…Five-day-old Holtzman rats that received a single pairing of a novel saccharin flavor (NF) with lithium (Li) treatment learned to suppress ingestion of…”
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Effects of MK-801 on vicarious trial-and-error and reversal of olfactory discrimination learning in weanling rats by Griesbach, Grace S, Hu, Dan, Amsel, Abram

“…The effects of dizocilpine maleate (MK-801) on vicarious trial-and-error (VTE), and on simultaneous olfactory discrimination learning and its reversal, were…”
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Behavioral and Neuroanatomical Effects of Prenatal, Postnatal, or Combined Exposure to Ethanol in Weanling Rats by Wigal, Tim, Amsel, Abram

“…Separate and combined effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to ethanol on activity, emotionality, learning, and hippocampal neuroanatomy were examined in…”
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B. F. Skinner and the cognitive revolution by Amsel, A

“…The behaviorism that cognitive scientists attack is a caricature, drawn primarily from the more polemical writings of J. B. Watson and B. F. Skinner. In this…”
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Extinction after regular and irregular reward schedules in the infant rat: Influence of age and training duration by Lilliquist, Michael W., Nair, Hemanth P., Gonzalez-Lima, F., Amsel, Abram

“…Greater persistence in extinction is observed following inconsistent reward compared to that observed following consistent reward, an effect termed the partial…”
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NMDA receptor subunit expression following early postnatal exposure to ethanol by Nixon, Kimberly, Hughes, Peter D., Amsel, Abram, Leslie, Steven W.

“…Changes in NMDA receptor function following early postnatal exposure to ethanol may be related to the expression of NMDA receptor subunits. Following early…”
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