Impairments in visual discrimination after perirhinal cortex lesions: Testing 'declarative' vs. 'perceptual-mnemonic' views of perirhinal cortex function

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 649-660

  Bussey, Timothy J ^a,b   Saksida, Lisa M ^a   Murray, Elisabeth A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination learning; Inferotemporal cortex; Learning; Object recognition; Rhesus macaque monkey; Ventral visual stream

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0037325161     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02475.x     Document Type: Article

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