Journal article
Perirhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Simultaneous but Not Serial Feature-Positive Discrimination Learning
Behavioral neuroscience, Vol.120(4), pp.970-975
08/2006
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.970
PMCID: PMC2556364
PMID: 16893302
Abstract
The role of the perirhinal cortex in discriminative eyeblink conditioning was examined by means of feature-positive discrimination procedures with simultaneous (A−/XA+) and serial (A−/X→A+) stimulus compounds. Lesions of the perirhinal cortex severely impaired acquisition of simultaneous feature-positive discrimination but produced no impairment in serial feature-positive discrimination. The results suggest that the perirhinal cortex plays a role in discriminative eyeblink conditioning by resolving ambiguity in discriminations with overlapping stimulus elements.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Perirhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Simultaneous but Not Serial Feature-Positive Discrimination Learning
- Creators
- Matthew M Campolattaro - Department of Psychology, University of IowaJohn H Freeman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavioral neuroscience, Vol.120(4), pp.970-975
- DOI
- 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.970
- PMID
- 16893302
- PMCID
- PMC2556364
- NLM abbreviation
- Behav Neurosci
- ISSN
- 0735-7044
- eISSN
- 1939-0084
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000025, name: National Institute of Mental Health, award: MH065483
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2006
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984065862802771
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