Slam on the brakes: A critique of Altman, Brunner, and Bayer's response-inhibition model of hippocampal function

Lynn Nadel; John O'Keefe; Abraham Black

doi:10.1016/S0091-6773(75)90148-0

Slam on the brakes: A critique of Altman, Brunner, and Bayer's response-inhibition model of hippocampal function

Lynn Nadel, John O'Keefe, Abraham Black

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A recent paper by Altman, Brunner, and Bayer (1973) reviewed much of the literature on the hippocampus and suggested that this structure is involved in response 'braking.' However, their discussion of the data often failed to include all the relevant studies, and sometimes misinterpreted those that it did cite. We would contend that the literature does not support the response-braking model, and further, that their paper perpetuates a view of the hippocampus as an inhibitory structure which is neither supported by the data nor takes into account some interesting facets of the hippocampal syndrome.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	151-162
Number of pages	12
Journal	Behavioral Biology
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0091-6773(75)90148-0
State	Published - Jun 1975
Externally published	Yes

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