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The Journal of Neuroscience, March 3, 2004, 24(9):2335-2342; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4930-03.2004

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Avoidance Response in Goldfish: Emotional and Temporal Involvement of Medial and Lateral Telencephalic Pallium

Manuel Portavella,¹ Blas Torres,² and Cosme Salas¹

¹Laboratorio de Psicobiología, Departamento de Psicología Experimental, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41018 Seville, Spain, and ²Laboratorio de Neurobiología, Departamento de Fisiología y Zoología, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Seville, Spain

The hippocampus and the amygdala are involved in avoidance learning in mammals. The medial and lateral pallia of actinopterygian fish have been proposed as homologous to the mammalian pallial amygdala and hippocampus, respectively, on the basis of neuroanatomical findings. This work was aimed at studying the effects of ablation of the medial telencephalic pallia (MP) and lateral telencephalic pallia (LP) in goldfish on the retention of a conditioned avoidance response previously acquired in two experimental conditions. In the first experiment, fish were trained in nontrace avoidance conditioning. In the second experiment, fish were trained in trace avoidance conditioning in which temporal cues were crucial for the learning process. An MP lesion affected the retention of the avoidance response in both procedures; in contrast, an LP lesion impaired the retention only in the trace-conditioning procedure. These data support the presence of two different systems of memory in fish, based on discrete telencephalic areas: the MP, involved in an emotional memory system; and the LP, involved in a spatial, relational, or temporal memory system. Moreover, these differential effects were similar to those produced by amygdalar and hippocampal lesions in mammals. We conclude that these specialized systems of memory could have appeared early during phylogenesis and could have been conserved throughout vertebrate evolution.

Key words: amygdala; hippocampus; avoidance learning; memory systems; telencephalon; brain evolution; teleost fish

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Received Nov 4, 2003; revised January 14, 2004; accepted January 17, 2004.

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