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Albino rats with bilateral lesions, involving the occipital cortex, nucleus posterior thalami, or red nucleus, and sham-operated controls were trained on a series of position-reversal problems. All brain-damaged animals performed more poorly than the controls, and the occipitalectomized animals were inferior to the other operated groups. These results fail to support the notion that damage to the occipital cortex, posterior diencephalon, or ventral mesencephalon produce visual discrimination retention deficits by heightening responsiveness to spatial cues.
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Thorne, B.M., Thompson, R. Position reversal learning as affected by occipital, posterior thalamic, and rubral lesions in the white rat. Psychon Sci 18, 189–190 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332369
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