title: Visual neurons with higher selectivity can retain memory in the monkey temporal cortex.
abstract: Activities of individual neurons were recorded from the superior temporal sulcus (STS) of rhesus monkeys during the performance of a visual discrimination and memory task. Of 174 neurons analyzed in detail, 19 neurons showed sustained changes in discharge rates during the delay period (D neurons). All the D neurons showed responses during the presentation of the same stimulus and had higher selectivity compared to the remaining non-D neurons. The data indicated that a subgroup of highly selective visual neurons in the STS participate in short-term retention of these stimuli.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavior and Brain Sciences, Kyoto University, Inuyama, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mikami
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology