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LEARNED behaviour is reported to be transmitted by injecting into untrained animals fractions1–4 or homogenates5, containing UNA, from the cerebral hemispheres of trained rats. Others6–8 have been unable to confirm these positive transfer effects. The transfer problem is very important for the understanding of memory and learning, and we have carried out a series of experiments with rats to investigate certain preliminary conditions which may be important in the positive or negative results which have been reported.
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ÁDÁM, G., FAISZT, J. Conditions for Successful Transfer Effects. Nature 216, 198–200 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216198a0
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