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3185711

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6193
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-12-1
pubmed:abstractText
In human long-term memory, ideas and concepts become associated in the learning process. No neuronal correlate for this cognitive function has so far been described, except that memory traces are thought to be localized in the cerebral cortex; the temporal lobe has been assigned as the site for visual experience because electric stimulation of this area results in imagery recall and lesions produce deficits in visual recognition of objects. We previously reported that in the anterior ventral temporal cortex of monkeys, individual neurons have a sustained activity that is highly selective for a few of the 100 coloured fractal patterns used in a visual working-memory task. Here I report the development of this selectivity through repeated trials involving the working memory. The few patterns for which a neuron was conjointly selective were frequently related to each other through stimulus-stimulus association imposed during training. The results indicate that the selectivity acquired by these cells represents a neuronal correlate of the associative long-term memory of pictures.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
335
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
817-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Neuronal correlate of visual associative long-term memory in the primate temporal cortex.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article