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The “classification” of relatively simple stimuli in the form of picture contours and planar geometric figures differing in color, shape, and size was accessible to animals after extirpation of the proreate gyrus.
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The possibility of transferring previous learning experience (generalization with respect to quality) to new stimuli with the same alternative trait (generalization with respect to quantity) and generalization with elements of abstraction from concrete objects suffered sharply during frontal pathology in cats.
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The frontal cortex is the most important component in the mechanisms of mental processes associated with a transition from the systematization of specific information to processes of formation of broad concepts requiring a high degree of abstraction.
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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti imeni I. P. Pavlova, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 867–874, September–October, 1983.
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Mukhin, E.I. Role of frontal cortex in differentiation of conditioned stimuli. Neurosci Behav Physiol 14, 140–145 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01185221
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