Correspondence between Humans and Animals in Coding of Temporal Attributes: Role of Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex
Correspondence between Humans and Animals in Coding of Temporal Attributes: Role of Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex
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人类和动物在时间属性编码中的对应:海马和前额叶皮层的作用
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1985.tb37584.x
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发表时间:
1985
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
R. Kesner
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文献类型:
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作者:
R. Kesner
Investigators interested in understanding the neurobiological basis of memory have had a long term interest in studying patients with a variety of memory disturbances. On the basis of a large number of descriptive and formal tests with these patients, researchers have identified a number of critical neural regions (e.g., hippocampus, cerebral cortex) that subserve the encoding, storage, and retrieval of mnemonic information and have developed a set of specific theories of brain-memory function. In addition, these patients have provided a great impetus for animal researchers to search for correspondence in brain function and memory. This latter emphasis is based on the assumption of evolutionary continuity of brain-mediated mnemonic functions. In the past the search for animal models of human memory pathology has not been entirely successful. However, a modicum of success has emerged in the last five years. What factors might have contributed to this success? First, there has been the development of new information-processing theoretical frameworks with an emphasis not only on the process of information storage and retrieval, but also on the structural organization of memory. As a result, these new theoretical frameworks have led to the development of new tests providing a richer description of human amnesic syndromes. Second, great progress has been made in the development of scanning techniques to assess potential brain damage in living organisms as well as in the development of new techniques (e.g., histochemical and neurochemical) to evaluate the consequences of brain damage. Third, there has been the development of new tasks and theories to study mental processes in animals as an alternative to the behaviorist tradition. Fourth, there is a recognition that brain damage in humans is rarely complete within a region and that more often than not it involves more than one neural region. There are of course still many problems, but the outlook is more optimistic. Some of the major problems in developing good animal models of human memory pathology lie in the importance of language processing in humans, the difficulty in determining the exact underlying neural pathology, the interconnectedness of the central nervous system, and the great variety of theoretical interpretations of the extant data. The purpose of this paper is to present a few experiments demonstrating that rats with hippocampus lesions have a comparable pattern of mnemonic deficits to humans with presumed hippocampus damage. Furthermore, I will attempt to show that rats with medial prefrontal cortex lesions display memory dysfunctions that are similar to those observed in frontal cortex damaged patients. Finally, I will present data showing that rats with either medial septum or nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesions have memory deficits similar to those that have been described in Alzheimer’s patients.
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
COHEN, NJ;SQUIRE, LR
通讯作者:
SQUIRE, LR
影响因子:
56.9
作者:
R. Struble;L. Cork;P. Whitehouse;D. Price
通讯作者:
R. Struble;L. Cork;P. Whitehouse;D. Price
DOI:
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发表时间:
1984
期刊:
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes
影响因子:
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作者:
DiMattia,BV;Kesner,RP
通讯作者:
Kesner,RP