Summary
We devised a behavioral paradigm (sequential button press task) for monkeys in order to test the hypothesis that the basal ganglia are crucial for procedural learning. Upon pressing of a home key, two of 16 (4×4) LED buttons (called ‘set’) were illuminated and the monkey had to press them in a predetermined order which he had to find by trial and error. A total of 5 sets (called ‘hyperset’) were presented in a fixed order for completion of a trial.
To examine whether the monkey learned the hyperset as a whole or remembered the individual sets, we generated hypersets that were the same as the learned hypersets except that the sequence of the sets was reversed. The performance of these ‘reversed hypersets’ was much worse than for the original learned hypersets, indicating that the monkey learned the whole hyperset.
To examine whether the memory was specific to the hand used for learning, we had the monkey use one side of the hand throughout the learning, and switched the hand to the unexperienced side. The performance was worse than for learned hypersets but better than for new hypersets, suggesting that the memory was partially specific to the hand used for learning.
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Hikosaka, O., Rand, M.K., Miyachi, S., Miyashita, K. (1995). Procedural Learning in the Monkey. In: Kimura, M., Graybiel, A.M. (eds) Functions of the Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loop. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68547-0_2
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