Effect of amygdalectomy on transfer of training in monkeys.
- 1 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 59 (1) , 118-121
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0021598
Abstract
Bilateral amygdalectomy of monkeys is shown to interfere with transfer of training in the Kluver stimulus equivalence situation. Further, failure to make "equivalent responses" reflects some process other than that involved in stimulus generalization because differential removals of temporal lobe tissue result in "double dissociation" of the interference with transfer and with stimulus generalization. Amygdalectomy alters primarily transfer of training; inferotemporal cortical resections alter primarily stimulus generalization and discrimination. The nature of this process, basic to transfer of training, remains to be investigated.Keywords
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