Strominger N L, Oesterreich R E, Neff W D
Physiol Behav. 1980 Jun;24(6):1149-56. doi: 10.1016/0031-9384(80)90062-1.
Studies in the monkey have shown that cortex outside of the primary projection areas in the superior temporal gyrus and in the inferotemporal region in important for the execution of some auditory and visual descriminations. In this study, six monkeys were trained to perform four auditory and two visual discriminations. Retention tests were given prior to bilateral removal of the anterior part of the lateral surface of the superior temporal gyrus, the inferotemporal region, or both areas together. Superior temporal ablations elicited severe deficits on some auditory discriminations. Inferotemporal ablations caused little or no impairment on visual discriminations. This negative finding is attributed to the sequential rather than spatial mode of presentation of visual stimuli, and to overtraining. A single monkey trained on a spatial visual pattern problem without overtraining was impaired. Another monkey tranied to perform an auditory reverse intensity discrimination exhibited a deficit in ability to perform the problem after removal of auditory cortex within the lateral fissure.
对猴子的研究表明，颞上回和颞下区域的初级投射区域之外的皮质对于执行某些听觉和视觉辨别很重要。在本研究中，训练了六只猴子来执行四项听觉辨别和两项视觉辨别。在双侧切除颞上回外侧表面前部、颞下区域或这两个区域之前进行了保持测试。颞上回切除在一些听觉辨别上引发了严重缺陷。颞下切除对视觉辨别几乎没有或没有造成损害。这一负面发现归因于视觉刺激呈现的顺序模式而非空间模式，以及过度训练。一只未经过度训练而训练空间视觉模式问题的猴子受到了损害。另一只训练执行听觉反向强度辨别的猴子在切除外侧裂内的听觉皮质后表现出执行该问题的能力缺陷。
