TY - JOUR
T1 - Slam on the brakes
T2 - A critique of Altman, Brunner, and Bayer's response-inhibition model of hippocampal function
AU - Nadel, Lynn
AU - O'Keefe, John
AU - Black, Abraham
N1 - Funding Information:
1L. N. and J. O'K. were supported by the Science Research Council of Britain and by the Wellcome Trust. A. B. spent a year in London, on leave from the Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Research Council of Canada. Reprint requests should be sent to the first author at University College, Department of Anatomy.
PY - 1975/6
Y1 - 1975/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0091-6773(75)90148-0
DO - 10.1016/S0091-6773(75)90148-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 1137539
AN - SCOPUS:0016798325
VL - 14
SP - 151
EP - 162
JO - Communications in behavioral biology. Part A: [Original articles]
JF - Communications in behavioral biology. Part A: [Original articles]
SN - 1074-7427
IS - 2
ER -