Brain Mechanisms in Problem Solving and Intelligence: A Lesion Survey of the Rat Brain

by Francis M. Crinella, Jen Yu, Robert Thompson

Book Overview

This book is the outcome of a decade of research on the neu- roanatomical mechanisms of learning in the young laboratory rat. It is essentially a discourse on the functional organization of the brain in relation to problem-solving ability and intelli- gence. During the period between 1980 and 1989, well over 1000 weanling albino rats were subjected to localized brain damage (or sham operations in the case of the controls) under deep anesthesia and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475795505
• ISBN13: 9781475795509
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"