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SUBMITTER: Fritz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1166637 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fritz Jonathan J Mishkin Mortimer M Saunders Richard C RC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050620 26
Monkeys trained preoperatively on a task designed to assess auditory recognition memory were impaired after removal of either the rostral superior temporal gyrus or the medial temporal lobe but were unaffected by lesions of the rhinal cortex. Behavioral analysis indicated that this result occurred because the monkeys did not or could not use long-term auditory recognition, and so depended instead on short-term working memory, which is unaffected by rhinal lesions. The findings suggest that monke ...[more]