Transposition, novelty, and limbic lesions.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 62 (3) , 354-357
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023925
Abstract
Monkeys with amygdaloid and hippocampal lesions and an operated control group were found to have high savings upon retraining to transposed stimuli after learning of a size discrimination. None of the group differences on the savings measure approached significance. Both amygdala and control groups, however, exhibited a disruption in performance on the first 20 retraining trials, which was highly related to performance on a former novelty test. It was suggested that former reports of a transposition deficit after amygdalectomy may have been due to differences in responses to novel cue used in test pairs, and to relatively few test trials being given.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Effect of amygdalectomy on transfer of training in monkeys.Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1965