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2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 534-540
Author(s):  
Stephanie N. Bentham ◽  
Stephen F. Walker ◽  
Maria E. Vander Pluym ◽  
Kristina N. Tejeda

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 414-417
Author(s):  
Marc W. Gold ◽  
Craig R. Barclay

Abstract A procedure to effectively and efficiently train moderately and severely retarded individuals to make fine visual discriminations is described. Results suggest that expectancies for such individuals are in need of examination. Implications for sheltered workshops, work activity centers and classrooms are discussed.


2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jena B. Hales ◽  
Nicola J. Broadbent ◽  
Priya D. Velu ◽  
Larry R. Squire ◽  
Robert E. Clark

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIN N. SCULLY ◽  
MARTIN J. ACERBO ◽  
OLGA F. LAZAREVA

AbstractEarlier, we reported that nucleus rotundus (Rt) together with its inhibitory complex, nucleus subpretectalis/interstitio-pretecto-subpretectalis (SP/IPS), had significantly higher activity in pigeons performing figure–ground discrimination than in the control group that did not perform any visual discriminations. In contrast, color discrimination produced significantly higher activity than control in the Rt but not in the SP/IPS. Finally, shape discrimination produced significantly lower activity than control in both the Rt and the SP/IPS. In this study, we trained pigeons to simultaneously perform three visual discriminations (figure–ground, color, and shape) using the same stimulus displays. When birds learned to perform all three tasks concurrently at high levels of accuracy, we conducted bilateral chemical lesions of the SP/IPS. After a period of recovery, the birds were retrained on the same tasks to evaluate the effect of lesions on maintenance of these discriminations. We found that the lesions of the SP/IPS had no effect on color or shape discrimination and that they significantly impaired figure–ground discrimination. Together with our earlier data, these results suggest that the nucleus Rt and the SP/IPS are the key structures involved in figure–ground discrimination. These results also imply that thalamic processing is critical for figure–ground segregation in avian brain.


2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 2245-2250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janita Turchi ◽  
Bryan Devan ◽  
Pingbo Yin ◽  
Emmalynn Sigrist ◽  
Mortimer Mishkin

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 968-968 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. To ◽  
P. G. Lovell ◽  
T. Troscianko ◽  
D. Tolhurst

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