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SUBMITTER: Jutras MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2806723 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jutras Michael J MJ Buffalo Elizabeth A EA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20091214 1
The hippocampus plays a critical role in recognition memory in both monkeys and humans. However, neurophysiological studies have rarely reported recognition memory signals among hippocampal neurons. The majority of these previous studies used variants of the delayed match-to-sample task; however, studies of the effects of hippocampal damage in monkey and humans have shown that another task of recognition memory, the visual paired-comparison, or visual preferential looking task (VPLT), is more se ...[more]