Publications by authors named "Catherine Nesbitt"
Two experiments examined the contribution of the perirhinal cortex (PRh) to retrograde memory for the location of a platform in a water maze. In a previous study, we found that electrolytic lesions of the PRh produced retrograde amnesia, without a temporal gradient, for water-maze problems acquired 4 weeks and 2 days before surgery [Behav. Brain.
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- The study investigated how lesions in the perirhinal cortex (PeRh) affected rats' memories related to object discrimination and recognition.
- Rats learned about one or multiple object tasks before undergoing surgery and had varying time frames for familiarizing with a sample object.
- Results showed that while PeRh-lesioned rats could still perform discrimination tasks, they had difficulty recognizing previously encountered objects, highlighting the importance of the perirhinal cortex for object familiarity rather than basic discrimination.