Abstract
The effect of increased exposure to multisensory stimulation during development on conditioned freezing to contextual cues in preweanling Sprague–Dawley rats was examined. Rats given increased environmental stimulation exhibited long-term contextual conditioning at a younger age than rats that did not receive such stimulation when there was either low or moderate levels of conditioning (Experiments 1 and 2). These differences in contextual conditioning were not a result of the stimulated rats reacting differently to shock (Experiment 4) or merely freezing more than the nonstimulated rats in all situations (Experiment 3). The role of the glucocorticoid system in the enhanced contextual learning of stimulated preweanling rats and the advantages of the contextual conditioning procedure for studying the effects of environmental stimulation are discussed.
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