Previous research has frequently reported that hippocampally lesioned rats perseverate. On a geometric progressive ratio schedule, in which reinforcement contingencies became gradually more adverse, rats with dorsal or ventral hippocampal lesions did not perseverate more than cortically lesioned or unoperated controls (ns = 7, 8). There was a significant reduction in the number of responses per session over the 10 experimental days, for all groups.
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