Lesions of the Rat Perirhinal Cortex Spare the Acquisition of a Complex Configural Visual Discrimination Yet Impair Object Recognition.

Rats with perirhinal cortex lesions were sequentially trained in a rectangular water tank on a series of 3 visual discriminations, each between mirror-imaged stimuli. When these same discriminations were tested concurrently, the rats were forced to use a configural strategy to solve the problems eff...

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Published in:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 124; no. 1; pp. 55 - 69
Main Authors:	Aggleton, John P., Albasser, Mathieu M., Aggleton, Duncan J.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association February 2010
Subjects:	Brain function localization Cerebral cortex Recognition (Philosophy) Visual perception Differentiation (Cognition)
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