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The phenomenon of “chemical transfer of learned information” was investigated in rodents and goldfish, using a variety of behavioral and biochemical approaches. Operant and classical conditioning, and positive and negative reinforcement were all found to give transfer effects. In discriminative situations indication for behavioral specificity of the effect was found. Brain homogenates, crude supernatants, and partly purified RNA extracts were equally effective. The site of injection was unimportant except for influencing the necessary amounts of brain material. This would seem to indicate that transfer effects are statistically reliable, occur commonly in many different types of learning, and are specific to the type of training applied to donors.
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Fjerdingstad, E.J. (1973). Chemical Transfer of Learned Information in Mammals and Fish. In: Zippel, H.P. (eds) Memory and Transfer of Information. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2052-4_20
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