Colombo M, D'Amato M R, Rodman H R, Gross C G
Department of Psychology, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 08903.
Science. 1990 Jan 19;247(4940):336-8. doi: 10.1126/science.2296723.
Monkeys that were trained to perform auditory and visual short-term memory tasks (delayed matching-to-sample) received lesions of the auditory association cortex in the superior temporal gyrus. Although visual memory was completely unaffected by the lesions, auditory memory was severely impaired. Despite this impairment, all monkeys could discriminate sounds closer in frequency than those used in the auditory memory task. This result suggests that the superior temporal cortex plays a role in auditory processing and retention similar to the role the inferior temporal cortex plays in visual processing and retention.
经过训练执行听觉和视觉短期记忆任务（延迟样本匹配）的猴子，其颞上回的听觉联合皮层受到了损伤。尽管视觉记忆完全未受损伤影响，但听觉记忆却严重受损。尽管存在这种损伤，所有猴子仍能够区分频率比听觉记忆任务中所使用的声音频率更接近的声音。这一结果表明，颞上回皮层在听觉处理和记忆方面所起的作用，类似于颞下回皮层在视觉处理和记忆方面所起的作用。
