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In two experiments, rats were subjected to a sequence of stimulations alternating from one amygdala to the contralateral one. Each phase of stimulation was for six convulsions prior to alternation to the other side. Rats In Experiment 1 had a series of six or seven phases of alternation, followed by five phases of bilateral stimulation, and concluded with seven phases of unilateral stimulation. In Experiment 2, rats had five phases of bilateral stimulation prior to seven phases of unilateral stimulation. The bilateral phases produced a modest disruption of the oscillation tendency when it was interspersed between two series of unilateral stimulation phases, more so in the criterion measure than in latency data. The effect was less on the oscillation tendency when bilateral stimulation preceded unilateral stimulation phases.
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Gaito, J. An oscillation effect during sequential alternations of unilateral amygdaloid stimulations within the kindling paradigm. Submitted for publication, 1975.
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I wish to acknowledge that Olive and Stephen Gaito constructed bipolar electrodes and that Paul Sanberg implanted electrodes in some of the rats.
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Gaito, J. The effect of bilateral stimulation during sequential alternation of unilateral amygdaloid stimulation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 355–357 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337214
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