Department of Physiology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
Physiol Res. 2011;60(Suppl 1):S93-9. doi: 10.33549/physiolres.932172. Epub 2011 Jul 19.
We performed a systematic study to check whether neurons in the area TE (the anterior part of inferotemporal cortex) in rhesus monkey, regarded as the last stage of the ventral visual pathway, could be modulated by auditory stimuli. Two fixating rhesus monkeys were presented with visual, auditory or combined audiovisual stimuli while neuronal responses were recorded. We have found that the visually sensitive neurons are also modulated by audiovisual stimuli. This modulation is manifested as the change of response rate. Our results have shown also that the visual neurons were responsive to the sole auditory stimuli. Therefore, the concept of inferotemporal cortex unimodality in information processing should be re-evaluated.
我们进行了一项系统研究，以检查猕猴颞下回（颞叶下皮质的前部）区域的神经元是否可以被听觉刺激所调制，因为这里被认为是腹侧视觉通路的最后阶段。两只注视的猕猴在呈现视觉、听觉或视听组合刺激时记录神经元反应。我们发现，视觉敏感神经元也可以被视听刺激所调制。这种调制表现为反应率的变化。我们的结果还表明，视觉神经元对单独的听觉刺激有反应。因此，信息处理中关于颞下回的单一模态的概念应该重新评估。
