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Albino rats with neocortical-septal lesions exhibited the sustained emotionality following a three week recovery period that has been observed in hooded Ss. The maintenance of this behavior could not be accounted for in terms of locus or laterality of the neocortical lesion.
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1. The authors wish to express their appreciation to Dr. Charles Corman and Dr. Gordon Harding for their surgical assistance in the early phases of this experiment. This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant MH-06211 while the last author was a predoctoral fellow under National Institutes of Health Training Grant 2M-6748-C4.
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Clark, S.M., Meyer, P.M., Meyer, D.R. et al. Emotionality changes following septal and neocortical ablations in the albino rat. Psychon Sci 8, 125–126 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330699
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