Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.

As part of an earlier experiment three rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with fornix transection and three normal control monkeys had learned to discriminate among 320 naturalistic complex scenes. The fornix-transected animals had been much slower than the controls to reach criterion in learning this...

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Hovedforfatter: Gaffan, D
Format: Journal article
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Udgivet: 1993
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description As part of an earlier experiment three rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with fornix transection and three normal control monkeys had learned to discriminate among 320 naturalistic complex scenes. The fornix-transected animals had been much slower than the controls to reach criterion in learning this task, but eventually did so. The present experiment measured long-term forgetting of these scenes. Seven weeks after reaching criterion each animal was retested. All animals showed some forgetting of the scene discriminations they had learned. The amount forgotten was equal in the two groups. These results show that the slower learning of the scenes following fornix transection was not caused by accelerated forgetting. The present findings in fornix-transected monkeys are similar to previous findings in human amnesic patients.
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spelling oxford-uuid:8e3d78c8-ca9f-43d8-9741-8caa4febce112022-03-26T22:56:23ZNormal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:8e3d78c8-ca9f-43d8-9741-8caa4febce11EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford1993Gaffan, DAs part of an earlier experiment three rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with fornix transection and three normal control monkeys had learned to discriminate among 320 naturalistic complex scenes. The fornix-transected animals had been much slower than the controls to reach criterion in learning this task, but eventually did so. The present experiment measured long-term forgetting of these scenes. Seven weeks after reaching criterion each animal was retested. All animals showed some forgetting of the scene discriminations they had learned. The amount forgotten was equal in the two groups. These results show that the slower learning of the scenes following fornix transection was not caused by accelerated forgetting. The present findings in fornix-transected monkeys are similar to previous findings in human amnesic patients.
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Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title_full Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title_fullStr Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title_full_unstemmed Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title_short Normal forgetting, impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix-transected monkeys.
title_sort normal forgetting impaired acquisition in memory for complex naturalistic scenes by fornix transected monkeys
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