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SUBMITTER: Weiss AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5737963 | biostudies-other | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Weiss Alison R AR Guo Wendi W Richardson Rebecca R Bachevalier Jocelyne J
Developmental cognitive neuroscience 20171031
The perirhinal cortex is known to support high-level perceptual abilities as well as familiarity judgments that may affect recognition memory. We tested whether poor perceptual abilities or a loss of familiarity judgment contributed to the recognition memory impairments reported earlier in monkeys with PRh lesions received in infancy (Neo-PRh) (Weiss and Bachevalier, 2016; Zeamer et al., 2015). Perceptual abilities were assessed using a version of the Visual Paired Comparison task with black&whi ...[more]