The contextual specificity of the conditioned response (CR) and latent inhibition (LI) was
examined in rats with selective hippocampal lesions. Acquisition of the CR to a novel …

Cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) were assessed for their ability to associate
visual stimuli with food reward. They learned a series of new 2-choice visual discriminations …

Thirty-three monkeys took part in seven experiments designed to elucidate further the effect
of fornix transection on learning and memory. In the first experiment the monkeys had to …

Recent ideas about hippocampal function in animals suggest that it may be involved in
memory. A new test for rat memory is described (the despatch task). It has several properties …

Experimental lesion studies in monkeys have demonstrated that the cortical areas
surrounding the hippocampus, including the entorhinal, perirhinal and parahippocampal …

On a test of one-trial learning of object-reward associations, monkeys showed marked
impairment after lesions of either the anterior part of inferior temporal cortex (area TE) or the …

Using a within-subjects design, rats were trained on two place-memory problems and five
object-discrimination problems at different intervals prior to receiving either ibotenate lesions …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the role of the hippocampus and discusses the
characteristics of amnesia. It also describes the case of human amnesia, which establishes …

Hippocampal rats were given simple, conditional, and configural tasks that required them to
pull up strings to obtain food pellets. The tasks contrasted string size, odor, location, paired …

The histories of the terms “reward” and “reinforcement” are reviewed to show the difference
in their origins. Reward refers to the fact that certain environmental stimuli have the property …