Role of perirhinal cortex in object perception, memory, and associations.
The perirhinal cortex plays a key role in acquiring knowledge about objects. It contributes to at least four cognitive functions, and recent findings provide new insights into how the perirhinal cortex contributes to each: first, it contributes to recognition memory in an automatic fashion; second, it probably contributes to perception as well as memory; third, it helps identify objects by associating together the different sensory features of an object; and fourth, it associates objects with other objects and with abstractions.
Murray
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Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 49, Room 1B80, 49 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892-4415, USA. eam@ln.nimh.nih.gov
Richmond
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D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*