recent lesion studies on young rats suggest that the components of the rodent 's general learning system ( gls ; a group of brain structures essential for normal acquisition of a wide range of laboratory tasks , include the regions of the caudatoputamen , globus pallidus , ventrolateral thalamus , substantia nigra , ventral tegmental area , superior colliculus , median raphe , and pontine reticular formation ) .
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of brain structures
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ventrolateral thalamus