THE REPRESENTATION OF INFORMATION IN THE TEMPORAL LOBE VISUAL CORTICAL AREAS OF MACAQUES

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the representation of information in the temporal lobe visual cortical areas of macaques. The inferior temporal cortex is among the highest unimodal visual cortical areas known. Also, there are a set of cortical areas in the anterior part of the superior temporal sulcus which also receive visual inputs. In experiments to investigate how a particular object in the environment might be represented by the activity of neurons in temporal lobe visual cortical areas, the responses of the face selective neurons to the faces of different individuals have been discussed. Thus, the type of tuning found in at least some temporal lobe cortical visual areas is seen as a delicate compromise between very fine tuning, which has the advantage of low interference in neuronal network operations but the disadvantage of losing the emergent properties of storage in neuronal networks, and broad tuning, which has the advantage of allowing the emergent properties of neuronal networks to be realized but of leading to interference between the different memories stored in the network.

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