Temporal multiplexing of perception and memory codes in IT cortex | Nature

We examined how familiar faces are encoded in inferotemporal, perirhinal and temporal pole face patches, and found that relative response magnitude to familiar versus unfamiliar faces was not a stable indicator of familiarity in any patch.

Download PDF Subjects Long-term memory Object vision Abstract A central assumption of neuroscience is that long-term memories are represented by the same brain areas that encode sensory stimuli 1 . Neurons in inferotemporal (IT) cortex represent the sensory percept of visual objects using a distributed axis code 2 , 3 , 4 . Whether and how the same IT neural population represents the long-term memory of visual objects remains unclear. Here we examined how familiar faces are encoded in the IT anterior medial face patch (AM), perirhinal face patch (PR) and temporal pole face patch (TP). In AM an

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