Gaurav Venkat Cuddapah, Pujitha Vallivedu Chennakesavulu, Pradeep Pentapurthy, Mounika Vallakati, Akhila Kongara, Preethi Reddivari, Sindhu Singareddy, Kamala Pragna Chandupatla, Miryala Swamy
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typical nonverbal transitive inference task ti consists several overlapping discriminations b b c c e letters indicate stimuli pluses minuses denote reinforcement nonreinforcement choice stimulus b novel pair bd interpreted indicative ti b c c b although hippocampus implicated nonverbal ti clear whether simply maintains memory associative values stores ordered representation stimuli investigated effect hippocampal lesion ti pigeons controlling reinforcement history reliance associative values would lead choice stimulus pair bd instead choice stimulus b expected inferential mechanisms prior lesion pigeons relational group n 4 selected b indicating ti birds associative group n 6 chose b suggesting reliance associative values hippocampal lesion effect postlesion performance associative group contrast relational group preferred stimulus b pair bd lesion showed nearchance performance lesion results demonstrate hippocampus may involved creating representation ordered series stimuli instead maintaining reinforcement history stimulus addition provide behavioral procedure suitable dissociating different behavioral strategies used solving ti task finally show first time involvement avian hippocampus task explicitly spatial nature results confirm notion avian hippocampus functionally analogous mammalian hippocampus despite significant differences anatomy