Amygdalectomy impairs crossmodal association in monkeys. Export

@article{citeulike:3564780, abstract = {Monkeys trained on both visual and tactual versions of an object memory task (delayed nonmatching-to-sample) received bilateral ablations of either the amygdaloid complex or the hippocampal formation of the brain. Although both groups performed well on the two intramodal versions (visual-to-visual and tactual-to-tactual), the amygdalectomized monkeys were severely impaired relative to the hippocampectomized monkeys on a crossmodal version (tactual-to-visual). The findings suggest that the amygdala is critical for certain forms of crossmodal association and that the loss of such associations underlies many of the bizarre behaviors that make up the Kl\"{u}ver-Bucy syndrome.}, author = {Murray, E. A. and Mishkin, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {3564780}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3983648}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=3983648}, day = {3}, issn = {0036-8075}, journal = {Science (New York, N.Y.)}, keywords = {amygdala, haptic, monkey, no\_full\_text, visual}, month = {May}, number = {4699}, pages = {604--606}, posted-at = {2008-11-18 10:30:19}, priority = {2}, title = {Amygdalectomy impairs crossmodal association in monkeys.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3983648}, volume = {228}, year = {1985} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3564780 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3564780 N2 - Monkeys trained on both visual and tactual versions of an object memory task (delayed nonmatching-to-sample) received bilateral ablations of either the amygdaloid complex or the hippocampal formation of the brain. Although both groups performed well on the two intramodal versions (visual-to-visual and tactual-to-tactual), the amygdalectomized monkeys were severely impaired relative to the hippocampectomized monkeys on a crossmodal version (tactual-to-visual). The findings suggest that the amygdala is critical for certain forms of crossmodal association and that the loss of such associations underlies many of the bizarre behaviors that make up the Klüver-Bucy syndrome. IS - 4699 JF - Science (New York, N.Y.) SN - 0036-8075 EP - 606 TI - Amygdalectomy impairs crossmodal association in monkeys. VL - 228 SP - 604 KW - amygdala KW - haptic KW - monkey KW - no_full_text KW - visual AU - Murray, EA AU - Mishkin, M PY - 1985/05/03/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3983648 ER -