Models of Plasticity in the Chemical Senses
General Information
The seminar will meet every Tuesday at 1230 pm in the Spring of 2006 in the BRF conference room. The goal of the seminar is to review the standard models of central plasticity in the chemical senses (e.g. learning and memory, or taste-smell integration). Each week one person will make a presentation on a model system, referring to two papers. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the experimental procedures of each model, and the unique features of each model that illuminate different aspects of central chemosensory processing.
Reviews of Olfaction and Taste in Rats
Slotnick, B., Schellinck, H and Brown, R. Olfaction. In Whishaw, IQ and Kolb, B., ed. The behavior of the laboratory rat. New York: Oxford University Press 2005. p. 90-102.
Spector, A. C. Taste. In Whishaw, IQ and Kolb, B., ed. The behavior of the laboratory rat. New York: Oxford University Press 2005. p. 105-120.
Guidelines for Presentations [MS Word]
Schedule of Presentations
March 21: Maternal Recognition
Keller M, Meurisse M, Poindron P, Nowak R, Ferreira G, Shayit M, Levy F. Maternal experience influences the establishment of visual/auditory, but not olfactory recognition of the newborn lamb by ewes at parturition. Dev Psychobiol. 2003 Nov;43(3):167-76.
Kendrick KM, Guevara-Guzman R, Zorrilla J, Hinton MR, Broad KD, Mimmack M, Ohkura S. Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide. Nature. 1997 Aug 14;388(6643):670-4. PMID: 9262400
An extra review paper: Levy F, Keller M, Poindron P. Olfactory regulation of maternal behavior in mammals. Horm Behav. 2004 Sep;46(3):284-302. PMID: 15325229
Non-olfactory recognition by sheep: da Costa AP, Leigh AE, Man MS, Kendrick KM. Face pictures reduce behavioural, autonomic, endocrine and neural indices of stress and fear in sheep. Proc Biol Sci. 2004 Oct 7;271(1552):2077-84. PMID: 15451699
March 14: Glen Golden, Conditioned Flavor Preference
Sclafani A, Fanizza LJ, Azzara AV. Conditioned flavor avoidance, preference, and indifference produced by intragastric infusions of galactose, glucose, and fructose in rats. Physiol Behav. 1999 Aug;67(2):227-34. PMID: 10477054
Touzani K, Sclafani A. Conditioned flavor preference and aversion: role of the lateral hypothalamus.
Behav Neurosci. 2001 Feb;115(1):84-93. PMID: 11256455
February 28 : Hiedi Rivera, Sensory Specific Satiety
Hetherington M, Rolls BJ, Burley VJ.The time course of sensory-specific satiety. Appetite. 1989 Feb;12(1):57-68. PMID: 2719473
Swithers SE, Martinson FA.Habituation of oral responding in adult rats. Behav Neurosci. 1998 Feb;112(1):213-24. PMID: 9517829
February 14 : Bumsup Kwon, Olfaction in Vole Pair-Bonding
Curtis JT, Liu Y, Wang Z. Lesions of the vomeronasal organ disrupt mating-induced pair bonding in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Brain Res. 2001 May 18;901(1-2):167-74. PMID: 11368964
Demas GE, Williams JM, Nelson RJ. Amygdala but not hippocampal lesions impair olfactory memory for mate in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Am J Physiol. 1997 Nov;273(5 Pt 2):R1683-9. PMID: 9374810
January 31: Denesa Lockwood, Olfactory Conditioning in Fruit Flies
Tully, T. Discovery of genes involved with learning and memory: An experimental synthesis of Hirschian and Benzerian perspectives. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 Nov 26;93(24):13460-7. PMID: 8942957
Quinn, WG, Harris, WA, Benzer S. Conditioned behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1974 Mar;71(3):708-12. PMID: 4207071
January 24: Tom Houpt, Conditioned Taste Aversion
Grill HJ, Norgren R.Chronically decerebrate rats demonstrate satiation but not bait shyness. Science. 1978 Jul 21;201(4352):267-9. PMID: 663655
Spector AC, Breslin P, Grill HJ.Taste reactivity as a dependent measure of the rapid formation of conditioned taste aversion: a tool for the neural analysis of taste-visceral associations. Behav Neurosci. 1988 Dec;102(6):942-52. PMID: 2850815
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February 28:
March 14:
March 21: Social Recognition
Levy F, Poindron P, Le Neindre P. Attraction and repulsion by amniotic fluids and their olfactory control in the ewe around parturition.
Physiol Behav. 1983 Nov;31(5):687-92. PMID: 666505Kendrick KM, Levy F, Keverne EB. Changes in the sensory processing of olfactory signals induced by birth in sleep. Science. 1992 May 8;256(5058):833-6. PMID: 1589766
Da Costa AP, Guevara-Guzman RG, Ohkura S, Goode JA, Kendrick KM. The role of oxytocin release in the paraventricular nucleus in the control of maternal behaviour in the sheep. J Neuroendocrinol. 1996 Mar;8(3):163-77. PMID: 8730650
Kendrick KM, Guevara-Guzman R, Zorrilla J, Hinton MR, Broad KD, Mimmack M, Ohkura S. Formation of olfactory memories mediated by nitric oxide. Nature. 1997 Aug 14;388(6643):670-4. PMID: 9262400
Booth KK, Katz LS. Role of the vomeronasal organ in neonatal offspring recognition in sheep. Biol Reprod. 2000 Sep;63(3):953-8
Keller M, Meurisse M, Poindron P, Nowak R, Ferreira G, Shayit M, Levy F. Related Articles, Links
Maternal experience influences the establishment of visual/auditory, but not olfactory recognition of the newborn lamb by ewes at parturition.
Dev Psychobiol. 2003 Nov;43(3):167-76.
Date TBA: Jen Stratford, Sodium Appetite
Lundy RF Jr, Norgren R. Activity in the hypothalamus, amygdala, and cortex generates bilateral and convergent modulation of pontine gustatory neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2004 Mar;91(3):1143-57.PMID: 14627662
Geerling JC, Engeland WC, Kawata M, Loewy AD.Aldosterone target neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius drive sodium appetite. J Neurosci. 2006 Jan 11;26(2):411-7. PMID: 16407537