Null epac mutants exhibit altered acquisition during single-cycle training. During single-cycle training animals receive a variable number of shock trials—the unconditioned stimulus (US)—in the presence of an olfactory cue, the conditioned stimulus (CS). (A) Scheme of single-cycle training conditions that provide ascending training trials during a fixed period of CS presentation. (B) To determine the contribution of individual trials we varied the number of trials received during training and plotted performance as a function of trial number for wild-type, rut1 and null epac mutants. We calculated the amount of newly acquired information normalized per trial for (C) first trial, (D) second trial, (E) fifth trial, and (F) 12th trial. All data represent means ± SEM. N = 6–8. Statistical differences at the level of P ≤ 0.05 are denoted by different letters.