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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 3, Issue 12, Pages 1307-1315Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/81841
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The limbic system is necessary to associate stimuli with their motivational and emotional significance. The perirhinal cortex is directly connected to this system, and neurons in this region carry signals related to a monkey's progress through visually cued reward schedules. This task manipulates motivation by displaying different visual cues to indicate the amount of work remaining until reward delivery. We asked whether rhinal (that is, entorhinal and perirhinal) cortex is necessary to associate the visual cues with reward schedules. When faced with new visual cues in reward schedules, intact monkeys adjusted their motivation in the schedules, whereas monkeys with rhinal cortex removals failed to do so. Thus, the rhinal cortex is critical for forming associations between visual stimuli and their motivational significance.
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