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In recent years, the radial maze paradigm has been intensively used to study spatial memory in relation with the hippocampal functioning. Technics of lesions (Olton, Walker, & Gage, 1978; Jarrard, 1980; Winocur, 1982), cell recordings (O’Keefe & Dostrovsky, 1971;Olton, Branch, & Best, 1978) together with drug treatments (Eckerman, Gordon, Edwards, McPhail, & Gage, 1979; Godding, Rush, & Beatty, 1981; Stevens, 1981, Watts, Stevens, & Robinson, 1981) have stressed the control exerted by the hippocampus — and in particular by the cholinergic receptors - on this specific category of memorial processes. However, in spite of the common view according to which the integrity of the hippocampal system and of its connections is necessary to learn and perform the radial maze task, a number of controversial issues have arisen regarding either the characteristics of spatial memory or the functional involvement of hippocampus.
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Ammassari-Teule, M. (1987). Mapping Operations, Spatial Memory and Cholinergic Mechanisms. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3533-4_7
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