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MANY workers have demonstrated the use of spreading cortical depression to lateralize the effects of conditioning to one cerebral hemisphere. Russell and Ochs1 have shown that food-reinforced bar-pressing lateralized to one hemisphere could be transferred to the other hemisphere with a single reinforced trial during bilateral cortical function. More recently Russell and Ochs2 showed that a necessary condition for such one-trial inter-hemispheric transfer of a memory trace was the presence of reinforcement during bilateral function. If animals were allowed to perform the conditioned response in the absence of reinforcement no transfer was found.
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ROSS, R., STEELE RUSSELL, I. Lateralization and One-trial Inter-hemispheric Transfer of Avoidance Conditioning. Nature 204, 909–910 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204909a0
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