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Volume 16, Number 16, Issue of August 15, 1996 pp. 5256-5265
Copyright ©1996 Society for NeuroscienceNeurotoxic Lesions of Basolateral, But Not Central, Amygdala Interfere with Pavlovian Second-Order Conditioning and Reinforcer Devaluation Effects
Received March 6, 1996; revised June 10, 1996; accepted June 14, 1996.
Tammy Hatfield1, Jung-Soo Han1, Michael Conley2, Michela Gallagher1, and Peter Holland2 1 Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, and 2 Department of Psychology-Experimental, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708
Considerable evidence suggests that various discrete nuclei within the amygdala complex are critically involved in the assignment of emotional significance or value to events through associative learning. Much of this evidence comes from aversive conditioning procedures. For example, lesions of either basolateral amygdala (ABL) or the central nucleus (CN) interfere with the acquisition or expression of conditioned fear. The present study examined the effects of selective neurotoxic lesions of either ABL or CN on the acquisition of positive incentive value by a conditioned stimulus (CS) with two appetitive Pavlovian conditioning procedures. In second-order conditioning experiments, rats first received light-food pairings intended to endow the light with reinforcing power. The acquired reinforcing power of the light was then measured by examining its ability to serve as a reinforcer for second-order conditioning of a tone when tone-light pairings were given in the absence of food. Acquisition of second-order conditioning was impaired in rats with ABL lesions but not in rats with CN lesions. In reinforcer devaluation procedures, conditioned responding of rats with ABL lesions was insensitive to postconditioning changes in the value of the reinforcer, whereas rats with CN lesions, like normal rats, were able to spontaneously adjust their CRs to the current value of the reinforcer. The results of both test procedures indicate that ABL, but not CN, is part of a system involved in CSs' acquisition of positive incentive value. Together with evidence that identifies a role for CN in certain changes in attentional processing of CSs in conditioning, these results suggest that separate amygdala subsystems contribute to a variety of processes inherent in associative learning.
Key words: basolateral amygdala; amygdala central nucleus; second-order conditioning; reinforcer devaluation; classical conditioning; rats
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