Mumby and his colleagues showed that object-recognition deficits that were caused in rats by cerebral ischemia could be prevented by the bilateral removal of the
A) hippocampus.
B) amygdala.
C) rhinal cortex.
D) cingulate.
E) reinforcement.
Answer: A) hippocampus.
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