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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 21.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychobiol. 2010 Jul;52(5):487–503. doi: 10.1002/dev.20451

Table 2.

Experiment 1—Food Retrieval Behavior in the Presence of Animal-Like Objects

Frequency(rate)
Lesion Group
C A H Effect of Object Complexity
Object Type No Object .74 ± .17 .89 ± .05 .86 ± .07 F(2, 42)=11.63, p<.0001, ηp2=.356
Simple Object .59 ± .18 .72 ± .14 .75 ± .14
Complex Object .53 ± .16 .56 ± .13 .75 ±. 16
Lesion X Object Complexity
Effect of Lesion F(2, 21)=.42, p<.66, ηp2=.038 F(4, 42)=1.04, p<.40, ηp2=.090
A v. C, n.s.; H v. C, n.s; A v. H, n.s.
Latency (seconds)
Lesion Group
C A H Effect of Object Complexity
Object Type No Object 19.15 ± 4.48 6.99 ± 2.26 10.15 ± 2.54 F(2, 42)=23.96, p<.0001, ηp2=.533
Simple Object 13.69 ± 5.01 12.02 ± 3.64 13.69 ± 3.92
Complex Object 15.86 ± 4.29 15.95 ± 3.25 15.86 ± 3.41
Lesion X Object Complexity
Effect of Lesion F(2, 21)=.20, p<.82, ηp2=.019 F(4, 42)=.39, p<.82, ηp2=.036
A v. C, n.s.; H v. C, n.s; A v. H, n.s.

Note: C: control group; A: amygdala-lesioned group; H: hippocampus-lesioned group. Means ± standard errors. Lesion groups were compared using Mann-Whitney tests.