Inferotemporal neurons of the monkey responsive to auditory signal.
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.
D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008251:Macaca; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*