Background Drug memories become labile and reconsolidated after retrieval by presentation of environmental cues (conditioned stimulus) or drugs (unconditioned stimulus). Whether conditioned stimulus and unconditioned stimulus retrieval trigger different memory reconsolidation processes is not clear. Methods Protein synthesis inhibitor or β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) antagonist was systemicall...

Nonreinforced retrieval can cause extinction and/or reconsolidation, two processes that affect subsequent retrieval in opposite ways. Using the Morris water maze task we show that, in the rat, repeated nonreinforced expression of spatial memory causes extinction, which is unaffected by inhibition of protein synthesis within the CA1 region of the dorsal hippocampus. However, if the number of non...

image retrieval is an important research field which has received great attention in the last decades. in this paper, we present an approach for the image retrieval based on the combination of text-based and content-based features. for text-based features, keywords and for content-based features, color and texture features have been used. query in this system contains some keywords and an input...

Morphine’s effects on learning and memory processes are well known to depend on synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus. Whereas the role of the hippocampus in morphine-induced amnesia and state-dependent learning is established, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying these processes are poorly understood. The present study intended to investigate whether administration of morphine ...

Phrases has a long history in information retrieval, particularly in commercial systems. Implicit semantic relationship between words in a form of BaseNP have shown significant improvement in term of precision in many IR studies. Our research focuses on linguistic phrases which is language dependent. Our results show that using BaseNP can improve performance although above 62% of words formatio...

Different scenarios of XML retrieval are analysed in the INEX 2005 ad hoc track, which reflect different query interpretations and user behaviours that may be observed during XML retrieval. The RMIT University group’s participation in the INEX 2005 ad hoc track investigates these XML retrieval scenarios. Our runs follow a hybrid XML retrieval approach that combines three information retrieval m...