Cluster profiles of university students’ conceptions of learning according to gender, educational level, and academic disciplines
Publication date: May 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 70Author(s): Giulia Vettori, Claudio Vezzani, Lucia Bigozzi, Giuliana Pinto (Source: Learning and Motivation)
Source: Learning and Motivation - March 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effects of intrahippocampal injection of Leptin on seizure-induced cognitive impairment in male rats
Publication date: May 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 70Author(s): Hanie Safa, Asma Sharifinejad, Farshid Ataollahi, Elham Haghparast, Khadijeh Esmaeilpour (Source: Learning and Motivation)
Source: Learning and Motivation - March 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): (Source: Learning and Motivation)
Source: Learning and Motivation - February 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Dimensions of sucrose solutions in the successive negative contrast effect
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Juan Carlos Ruiz-Salas, L. Gonzalo de la Casa, Mauricio R. PapiniAbstractThe consummatory successive negative contrast (cSNC) task typically involves administering food-deprived rats 10 daily 5-min sessions of access to 32 % sucrose (preshift) followed by a few sessions in which the concentration is reduced to 4 % sucrose (postshift). Such sucrose downshift leads to transient suppression of consummatory behavior. Reward downshifts were used to determine whether food-deprived rats treat sucrose solutions as food, because sweetness is a proxy...
Source: Learning and Motivation - February 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Scaling relative incentive value in honey bees, Apis mellifera
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Alan M. DanielAbstractReward downshifts in honey bees, Apis mellifera, result in a suppression of behavior that parallels mammalian frustration in response to reward downshift. Consistent with Weber’s Law, rats drinking sucrose that are trained with a 32 % sucrose solution and downshifted to a 4 % solution show a disruption in drinking based on the ratio discrepancy between the solutions, known as the “ratio scaling” property. The present experiment explored whether bee reward downshifts also exhibit ratio scaling, or instead depend u...
Source: Learning and Motivation - February 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Brief circadian rhythm disruption does not impair hippocampal dependent memory when rats are over-trained and given more re-entrainment days
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Abigail W. Newman, Scott H. Deibel, Leanna M. Lewis, Kayla B. Viguers, Christina M. ThorpeAbstractCircadian rhythm disruption can impair cognition in both humans and rodents. Brief exposure to circadian rhythm disruption that occurs after Morris water task training impairs retention of the place memory. This is quite unexpected as circadian rhythms were entrained both during training and memory testing. In the present study, we investigated this phenomenon, but with a few procedural elements implemented that would likely improve Morris wate...
Source: Learning and Motivation - February 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Antiepileptogenic effect of myricitrin on spatial memory and learning in a kainate-induced model of temporal lobe epilepsy
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Fereshteh Keikhaei, Mohammad Ali Mirshekar, Mohammad Reza Shahraki, Alireza DashipourAbstractTemporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) causes impairment in learning and memory by causing neurological damage. Using the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of myricitrin (MYC), the present study was conducted in order to investigate the neuroprotection effects of MYC in kainic acid (KA) induced- TLE experimental model.Forty male Wistar rats were divided into five groups: 1: Sham, 2: MYC, 3: TLE (epileptic group), 4: VA + TLE (valproic acid and KA ...
Source: Learning and Motivation - January 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Local constraint of the contingent response controls rates of wheel-running and lever-pressing on an interval schedule of wheel-running reinforcement
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Terry W. Belke, W. David Pierce, Christine A. Sexton, Monica H. ZahlAbstractThree experiments assessed whether changes in rates of wheel running and lever pressing on a schedule of wheel-running reinforcement were controlled by local or overall constraint of the contingent response. In Experiment 1 rats responded on a response-initiated variable interval 15-s schedule with wheel running as reinforcement. Overall constraint (total revolutions by session) was held constant at 600 revolutions while local constraint (revolutions per reinforceme...
Source: Learning and Motivation - January 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Effect of Best Possible Self Intervention on Situational Motivation and Commitment in Academic Context
This study investigated the immediate effect of a Best Possible Self (BPS) intervention to enhance positive affect, situational academic motivation and academic commitment in a university context. A large sample of 176 French undergraduate students participated in the study. An experimental group (n = 88) performed a “Best Possible Self” (BPS) intervention that consisted of mentally thinking of the ideal academic future life. A control group (n = 88) was recruited to read neutral information during the same time. We evaluated positive and negative affect, situational academic motivation, and academic commitment...
Source: Learning and Motivation - January 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Can an augmented flavor augment another flavor? Evidence from second-order augmentation
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): W. Robert Batsell, Christina Dandar, Rachel Girard, Chelsea Miller, Gabrielle ShimkoAbstractIn 3 experiments with rat subjects, we explored flavor-aversion learning across multiple conditioning stages. Experiment 1 was the first demonstration of taste-taste augmentation: Saccharin (SAC) preconditioning followed by compound conditioning of SAC + saline produced a significantly stronger saline aversion. Notably, taste-taste augmentation was recorded both when the 2 tastes were mixed together or presented separately during compound conditionin...
Source: Learning and Motivation - January 1, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Evaluation during the extinction procedure causes extinction in evaluative conditioning
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Ryoji NishiyamaAbstractAfter repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus (the conditioned stimulus or CS) and an affective event (the unconditioned stimulus or US), the stimulus can elicit responses that are evoked by the affective event. The acquired response decreases throughout solo presentations of a stimulus, which is known as extinction. Evaluative conditioning (EC) experiments have showed both extinction and resistance to extinction, while Pavlovian conditioning (PC) experiments have usually showed extinction. The present study hypothesiz...
Source: Learning and Motivation - December 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Inescapable exposure to the Barnes maze increases preference for alcohol over water in rats: Implications for depression and anxiety
Publication date: February 2020Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 69Author(s): Joanna B. Thompson, Shannon E. Conrad, Carmen Torres, Mauricio R. PapiniAbstractVarious sources of stress induce alcohol intake in rodents, including inescapable shocks, physical restraint, and reward loss. One hypothesis maintains that alcohol intake increases because its anxiolytic properties reduce negative emotion. A series of experiments explored this hypothesis using escapable vs. inescapable exposure to the well-lit circular platform of a Barnes maze in a master/yoked (M/Y) design, with pairs of rats matched in the amount of time on ...
Source: Learning and Motivation - December 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: November 2019Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 68Author(s): (Source: Learning and Motivation)
Source: Learning and Motivation - November 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The ameliorative effects of myricetin on neurobehavioral activity, electrophysiology, and biochemical changes in an animal model of traumatic brain injury
Publication date: November 2019Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 68Author(s): Mohammad Ali Mirshekar, Mohammadreza Shahraki, Reza Najafi, Sahreh ShabaniAbstractTraumatic brain injury (TBI) can produce cognitive disabilities and death. The most frequent clinical symptoms of TBI are memory loss and unusual behavior or mental health disorders. The present study was aimed to evaluate the effects of chronic oral administration of myricetin (MYR) on behavioral activities (spatial and passive avoidance memory, and motor coordination) and long-term potentiation (LTP) from cornu ammonis area as well as malondialdehyde (MDA) l...
Source: Learning and Motivation - November 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The effect of game-based learning on academic achievement motivation of elementary school students
Publication date: November 2019Source: Learning and Motivation, Volume 68Author(s): Tahereh Partovi, Majid Reza RazaviAbstractGame-Based Learning is widespread among elementary school students. Consequences in academic achievement motivation have been studied frequently. The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of the Game-Based Learnings on the academic achievement motivation of the elementary school students. We used from a field method to collect the required data and complete the standard questionnaire. The study is a semi-experimental design with pretest-posttest design with the control group. The statistic...
Source: Learning and Motivation - November 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
