title: Non-spatial learning following posterior parietal or hippocampal lesions.
abstract: Posterior parietal, hippocampal, or sham-lesioned rats were tested for the acquisition of a non-monotonic serial learning task. The performance of control rats and those with a posterior parietal lesion was similar, while those with hippocampal damage demonstrated a working memory deficit. The results are integrated with contemporary conceptualizations of hippocampal and posterior parietal cortex involvement in learning and memory for non-spatial tasks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Georgia College, Milledgeville 31061.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Compton
authors.forename: W F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: McDaniel
authors.forename: K L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Dietrich
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology