Evidence was presented against an argument by Bennett (1969) that hippocampal lesions result in a deficit in simple 2-choice discrimination learning and/or delayed responding. It was shown that behavioral evidence suggests that hippocampal theta waves may be an index of behavioral disinhibition.
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