Iwai E, Aihara T, Hikosaka K
Brain Res. 1987 Apr 28;410(1):121-4. doi: 10.1016/s0006-8993(87)80031-8.
Responsiveness of single inferotemporal (IT) neurons to a tone as a start or warning signal in each test trial was investigated in monkeys performing visual discrimination of 4 patterns. It was found that the same IT neurons were responsive to both auditory signal and visual discriminanda with different response characteristics from each other. The activity of IT neurons for the auditory signal in the visual discrimination paradigm reflects an engagement process in attention to the visual discriminanda.
在对4种图案进行视觉辨别任务的猴子中，研究了单个颞下（IT）神经元对每次测试试验中作为起始或警告信号的音调的反应。结果发现，相同的IT神经元对听觉信号和视觉辨别刺激均有反应，且彼此具有不同的反应特征。在视觉辨别范式中，IT神经元对听觉信号的活动反映了对视觉辨别刺激的注意力参与过程。
