Inferotemporal cortex and object recognition

ABSTRACT Cells in the anterior part of the inferotemporal cortex (area TE) of the monkey brain selectively respond to various moderately complex object features, and those that respond to similar features cluster in a columnar region oriented vertically to the cortical surface. Cells within a column respond to similar but not identical features. Data from optical imaging in TE have suggested that the borders between neighboring columns are not discrete, but that there is a continuous mapping of complex-feature space within a larger region containing several partially overlapping columns. This continuous mapping may be used for various computations, such as production of the image of an object at different viewing angles, illumination conditions, and articulation poses.

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