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Chase, Henry W.; Clark, Luke; Myers, Catherine E.; Gluck, Mark A.; Sahakian, Barbara J.; Bullmore, Edward T.; Robbins, Trevor W. – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Several lines of evidence implicate the prefrontal cortex in learning but there is little evidence from studies of human lesion patients to demonstrate the critical role of this structure. To this end, we tested patients with lesions of the frontal lobe (n = 36) and healthy controls (n = 35) on two learning tasks: the weather prediction task…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Neurological Organization, Brain, Neurological Impairments
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Squire, Larry R.; Levy, Daniel A.; Shrager, Yael – Learning & Memory, 2005
The perirhinal cortex is known to be important for memory, but there has recently been interest in the possibility that it might also be involved in visual perceptual functions. In four experiments, we assessed visual discrimination ability and visual discrimination learning in severely amnesic patients with large medial temporal lobe lesions that…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Patients, Discrimination Learning, Memory