Orbital prefrontal cortex is required for object-in-place scene memory but not performance of a strategy implementation task.

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The orbital prefrontal cortex is thought to be involved in behavioral flexibility in primates, and human neuroimaging studies have identified orbital prefrontal activation during episodic memory encoding. The goal of the present study was to ascertain whether deficits in strategy implementation and episodic memory that occur after ablation of the entire prefrontal cortex can be ascribed to damage to the orbital prefrontal cortex. Rhesus monkeys were preoperatively trained on two behavioral ta...

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Authors: Baxter, MG; Gaffan, D; Kyriazis, D; Mitchell, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 42
• Pages: 11327-11333
• Publication date: 2007-10-01
• DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3369-07.2007
• EISSN: 1529-2401
• ISSN: 0270-6474
• Language: English
• Keywords: Discrimination Learning; Visual Perception; Photic Stimulation; Memory; Male; Animals; Prefrontal Cortex; Psychomotor Performance; Macaca mulatta; Female