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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Neural correlates of derived relational responding on tests of stimulus equivalence Michael W Schlund*1,2, Michael F Cataldo1,2 and Rudolf Hoehn-Saric2 Address: 1Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore MD, USA and 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore MD, USA Email: Michael W Schlund* - schlund@; Michael F Cataldo - cataldo@; Rudolf Hoehn- Saric - rhoehn@ * Corresponding author Published: 1 February 2008 Received: 23 April 2007 Accepted: 1 February 2008 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2008, 4:6 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-4-6 This article is available from: /content/4/1/6 © 2008 Schlund et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: An essential component of cognition and language involves the formation of new conditional relations between stimuli based upon prior experiences. Results of investigations on transitive inference (TI) highlight a prominent role for the medial temporal lobe in maintaining associative relations among sequentially arranged stimuli (A B C D E). In this investigation, medial temporal lobe activity was assessed while subjects completed Stimulus Equivalence (S