Premotor cortex in the rat.

Journal article

Donoghue and Wise (1982) identified an area AGm in the rat that they take to be a nonprimary motor area. In the present experiments, therefore, this area was removed bilaterally in rats. The animals were poor at relearning a visual conditional motor task but were able to learn spatial delayed alternation as rapidly as unoperated animals. Thus removing this area in rats has a similar effect to removing premotor cortex in monkeys. It is argued that this dorsomedial shoulder area should not be regarded as part of prefrontal cortex in the rat.

Authors: Passingham, R; Myers, C; Rawlins, N; Lightfoot, V; Fearn, S

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Behavioral neuroscience
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 101-109
• Publication date: 1988-02-01
• DOI: 10.1037//0735-7044.102.1.101
• EISSN: 1939-0084
• ISSN: 0735-7044
• Language: English
• Keywords: Learning; Visual Perception; Conditioning (Psychology); Motor Cortex; Male; Animals; Motor Activity; Rats; Space Perception