The effects of fornix transection and combined fornix transection, mammillary body lesions and hippocampal ablations on object-pair association memory in the rhesus monkey.

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Cynomolgus monkeys were tested on an associative memory task in which they had to remember object-object pairings. Eight animals (4 unoperated monkeys and 4 monkeys with lesions to components of the 'hippocampal-mammillary' circuit) were trained initially on a conditional object-pair association task that was similar to simple discrimination learning, but which involved presentation of object-pairs instead of single objects. Object-pairs were made up from 4 different objects, each with an ide...

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Authors: Saunders, R; Weiskrantz, L

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Behavioural brain research
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 85-94
• Publication date: 1989-11-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(89)80109-3
• EISSN: 1872-7549
• ISSN: 0166-4328
• Language: English
• Keywords: Neural Pathways; Animals; Attention; Macaca fascicularis; Form Perception; Male; Appetitive Behavior; Mamillary Bodies; Memory; Retention (Psychology); Brain Mapping; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Learning; Association Learning; Discrimination Learning; Mental Recall; Hippocampus