Gross C G
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 1992 Jan 29;335(1273):3-10. doi: 10.1098/rstb.1992.0001.
In primates, inferior temporal (IT) cortex is crucial for the processing and storage of visual information about form and colour. This article reviews the properties of IT neurons and considers how these properties may underlie the perceptual and mnemonic functions of IT cortex. The available evidence suggests that the processing of the facial image by IT cortex is similar to its processing of other visual patterns. Faces and other complex visual stimuli appear to be represented by the pattern of responses over a population of IT neurons rather than by the responses of specific 'feature detectors' or 'grandmother' cells. IT neurons with adult-like stimulus properties are present in monkeys as young as six weeks old.
在灵长类动物中，颞下（IT）皮质对于处理和存储有关形状和颜色的视觉信息至关重要。本文回顾了IT神经元的特性，并探讨了这些特性如何构成IT皮质的感知和记忆功能的基础。现有证据表明，IT皮质对面部图像的处理与其对其他视觉模式的处理相似。面部和其他复杂视觉刺激似乎由一群IT神经元的反应模式来表征，而不是由特定的“特征检测器”或“祖母”细胞的反应来表征。具有类似成年动物刺激特性的IT神经元在六周大的猴子中就已存在。
