TY - JOUR
AU - Calhoun, William H.
AB - Psychological Reports, 1961,9,493-496. @ Southern Universities Press 1961 BETTER LEARNING: NEURAL ENHANCEMENT OR REDUCED INTERFERENCE? D. D. THIESSEN,' KURT SCHLESINGER, AND WILLIAM H. CALHOUN" University of California, Berkeley In the recent past drug studies have played a significant role in the evalua- tion of behavior and they promise to be of even greater value in the future. Among the more interesting uses of drugs is the testing of specific hypotheses concerning central nervous system action and behavior. One such hypothesis currently receiving attention has been formulated by McGaugh and Petrinovich (1959). Their thesis is that animal learning can be facilitated by drugs which potentiate neural firing initially activated by the relevant stimulus cues. This conception of neural action is an extension of the early consolidation theory of Mueller and Pilzecker ( 1900) and the more recent speculations by Hebb ( 1949) about reverberating neural circuits. According to McGaugh and Peuinovich, drugs which facilitate learning have the property of increasing nervous excitability and as a consequence speed up the consolidation of the stimulus in- put. Among the drugs which have been reported by McGaugh and his colleagues to have facilitative effects on maze learning are strychnine (McGaugh & Petrinovich, 1959), 
TI - Better Learning: Neural Enhancement or Reduced Interference?: 
JF - Psychological Reports
DO - 10.2466/pr0.1961.9.3.493
DA - 2016-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/better-learning-neural-enhancement-or-reduced-interference-8OTZi3juMY
SP - 493
EP - 496
VL - 9
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -