Involvement of Neostriatum in the Prediction of Reinforced Response When Modifying the Stereotype of Tested Sensory Signals

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In the experiments on intact and caudatectomized cats, the effect of the size, structure, and pattern of stereotypically organized sequences of sensory signals on instrumental foraging behavior was studied. Unlike intact animals, caudatectomized cats demonstrated a decrease in the rate of response to single and double patterns of alternation of differentiating sensory signals, as well as an inability to develop a stable pattern of responses to their combination when the structure of stereotypically tested signal sequences changed. In intact animals, the effect of the value of inter-trial interval on the success of searching for and using stereotypical sequences previously learned by an animal was detected. The effect of implicit and explicit learning on the formation and execution of stereotypically performed motor skills in animal behavior is discussed.