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A RECENT review of evidence for a “frontal lobe system”1 indicates that damage to lateral frontal cortex could interfere with mechanisms that contribute to the regulation of selective attention. Such evidence gives physiological foundation to Oxbury's “sensory disinhibition” hypothesis2. This suggests that the poor delayed response performance of sub-human primates with bilateral frontal lesions arises from the difficulty they find in limiting attention to the stimulus to be remembered rather than from impaired short-term storage3 or recall4.
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BUFFERY, A. Learning and Memory in Baboons with Bilateral Lesions of Frontal or Inferotemporal Cortex. Nature 214, 1054–1056 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141054a0
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