Abstract
Rats previously trained on a tap water-acetone discrimination sustained bilateral damage to either the lateral olfactory tract, hypothalamus, ventral tegmental area, dorsomedial thalamus, amygdala, hippocampus or septal area and were subsequently tested for retention. Significant retention deficits were assocated only with lesions to the lateral olfactory tract and surrounding pyriform cortex, lateral preoptic-supraoptic area, posterolateral hypothalamus, lateral mamillary nuclei or ventral tegmental area. It is concluded that the hypothalamus constitutes the forebrain's principal nervous substratum for the performance of odor discriminations in the rat.
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