behavior/neurological
• mutants do not show differences in conditioning to saccharine when preexposed compared to wild-type mice which show decreased conditioning to saccharine that has been tested before conditioning, indicating a modest impairment of latent inhibition
• however, prepulse inhibition is unaltered
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• in an instrumentally conditioned reinforcement task, mutants show impaired attribution of salience to a reward-predicting tone
• mutants that were rewarded and it was expected for the cue to become salient, show an increase in the number of nose pokes over five trials, suggesting misattribution of salience to cues which should not become salient
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nervous system
• decrease in membrane excitability and spontaneous firing of striatal medium spiny neurons
• decrease in action potentials in response to increased steps of current
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