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ArticleHippocampus2019

The puzzle of spontaneous alternation and inhibition of return: How they might fit together.

Leslie S Phillmore, Raymond M Klein

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Article in Hippocampus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Leslie S PhillmoreDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5101-8794
Raymond M KleinDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3854-4498

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Discovery Grants to both authors
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two isolated spatial phenomena share a similar "been there; done that" effect on spatial behavior. Originally discovered in rodent learning experiments, spontaneous alternation is a tendency for the organism to visit a different arm in a T-maze on subsequent trials. Originally discovered in human studies of attention, inhibition of return is a tendency for the organism to orient away from a previously attended location. Whereas spontaneous alternation was identified by O'Keefe & Nadel as dependent on an intact hippocampus, inhibition of return is dependent on neural structures that participate in oculomotor control (the superior colliculus, parietal and frontal cortex). Despite the isolated literatures, each phenomenon has been assumed to reflect a basic novelty-seeking process, avoiding places previously visited or locations attended. In this commentary, we explore and compare the behavioral manifestations and neural underpinnings of these two phenomena, and suggest what is still needed to determine whether they operate in parallel or serial.

Indexed as

Inhibition, PsychologicalAnimalsBehavior, AnimalHippocampusMaze LearningMemorySpatial Behaviorforaginghippocampusinhibition of returnspatial behaviorspontaneous alternation

Identifiers

PMID31157942

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