title: Habituation-like decrease in the responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex of the macaque.
abstract: In both anesthetized and behaving macaques, we examined the responses of neurons in the inferior temporal cortex (IT) to repeated presentation of a visual stimulus. In anesthetized animals, the responsiveness of IT neurons decreased with repeated stimulus presentation at interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 2-12 s but not at 20 s. Responsiveness recovered after a 5-min period of no stimulus presentation. The response decrement was similar in anesthetized and awake animals at a 2-s ISI, but at a 6-s ISI, response decrement in the awake animal was much less.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey.
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Gochin
authors.forename: C G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D000818:Animals; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D008251:Macaca; D008839:Microelectrodes; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology