Learning in Rats with Extensive Neocortical Damage
- 1 May 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 129 (3357) , 1223-1224
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.129.3357.1223
Abstract
Albino rats with as much as 99 percent damage to the cerebral cortex were trained on a position habit in a simple T-maze. The operated rats were found to learn the problem as efficiently as normal animals even when a 30-second delay was imposed between the response and the food.Keywords
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