How inferior temporal cortex became a visual area.
The origins of contemporary work on the temporal cortex and object recognition are traced from their roots in phrenology through the search for a cortical visual area to the discovery of the Klüver-Bucy syndrome and its fractionation, finally ending with early single-neuron recording studies.
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Department of Psychology, Princeton University, New Jersey 08544.
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