• Neuroscience letters · Jun 2008

    Scopolamine impairs auditory delayed matching-to-sample performance in monkeys.

    • Bethany Plakke, Chi-Wing Ng, and Amy Poremba.
    • University of Iowa, Department of Psychology, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
    • Neurosci. Lett. 2008 Jun 13;438(1):126-30.

    AbstractInformation concerning the major neurotransmitters critical for auditory memory is sparse. One possibility is the cholinergic system, important for performance in some tasks requiring visual short-term memory and attention [T.G. Aigner, M. Mishkin, The effects of physostigmine and scopolamine on recognition memory in monkeys, Behav. Neural. Biol. 45 (1986) 81-87; N. Hironaka, K. Ando, Effects of cholinergic drugs on scopolamine-induced memory impairment in rhesus monkeys, Jpn. J. Psychopharmacol. 16 (1996) 103-108; T.M. Myers, G. Galbicka, M.L. Sipos, S. Varadi, J.L. Oubre, M.G. Clark, Effects of anticholinergics on serial-probe recognition accuracy of rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 73 (2002) 829-834; H. Ogura, T.G. Aigner, MK-801 Impairs recognition memory in rhesus monkeys: comparison with cholinergic drugs, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 266 (1993) 60-64; D.M. Penetar, J.H. McDonough Jr., Effects of cholinergic drugs on delayed match-to-sample performance of rhesus monkeys, Pharmacol. Biochem. Behav. 19 (1983) 963-967; M.A. Taffe, M.R. Weed, L.H. Gold, Scopolamine alters rhesus monkey performance on a novel neuropsychological test battery, Cogn. Brain Res. 8 (1999) 203-212]. Five rhesus monkeys were trained to perform an auditory go/no-go delayed matching-to-sample (DMTS) task wherein two acoustic stimuli (500ms), separated by variable memory delays (500ms, 2500ms, or 5000ms), were either identical sound presentations, i.e., match trials, or two different sound presentations, i.e., nonmatch trials. Sound stimuli were chosen semi-randomly from a large set sound set ( approximately 900). After reaching a criterion of 80% correct on the behavioral task, monkeys were injected with saline or doses of scopolamine hydrochloride mixed in saline (3 microg, 5 microg, and 10 microg per 1kg of weight), 30 min before training. Scopolamine impaired performance accuracy on match trials in a dose-dependent manner. Blocking muscarinic receptors with scopolamine did not significantly impair motor responses, food motivation, or responses to rewarded sound. These findings support the hypothesis that the cholinergic system is important for auditory short-term memory.

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