Facilitation of avoidance conditioning by reticular stimulation in the cat]

Learning is facilitated in Cats by posttrial reticular stimulation. It has been pointed out that this stimulation has no immediate anterograde effect and does not evoke any change in the cortical, motor or autonomic functions during its delivery. Moreover this stimulation has no effect on the time course of cortical and autonomic responses to the conditioned stimulus. Therefore, these results suggest that reticular stimulation has a specific action on memory consolidation or information processing.