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Pure-bred Burmese cats, with complete bilateral association-area lesions, were impaired in learning successive discrimination reversals.
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The research was supported by Grant GB-1853 from the National Science Foundation and Grant NB-02161 from the National Institutes of Health.
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Davis, J.L., Leary, R.W. Deficits in reversal learning in Burmese cats with bilateral association-area lesions. Psychon Sci 26, 259–260 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328611
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