Fornix transected macaques make fewer perseverative errors than controls during the early stages of learning conditional visuovisual discriminations [corrected].

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Previous studies with macaque monkeys have found rapid learning to be impaired in both spatial (visuospatial) and non-spatial (visuomotor) associative learning tasks after fornix transection. In order to test theories that posit a general role for the fornix in associative learning, we investigated whether monkeys with fornix transection would also be impaired in the rapid acquisition of visuovisual conditional associations. We trained monkeys, postoperatively, on three sets of conditional st...

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Authors: Kwok, S; Buckley, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Behavioural brain research
• Volume: 205
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 207-213
• Publication date: 2009-12-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.016
• EISSN: 1872-7549
• ISSN: 0166-4328
• Language: English
• Keywords: Visual Perception; Photic Stimulation; Neuropsychological Tests; Analysis of Variance; Space Perception; Fornix, Brain; Time Factors; Macaca fascicularis; Animals; Male; Association Learning; Discrimination (Psychology)