The human medial temporal lobe processes online representations of complex objects

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 45; no. 13; pp. 2963 - 2974
• Main Authors: Barense, Morgan D., Gaffan, David, Graham, Kim S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2007; Elsevier; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Aged; Amnesia; Amnesia - classification; Amnesia - etiology; Amnesia - pathology; Amnesia - physiopathology; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Damage, Chronic - complications; Brain Damage, Chronic - pathology; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Case-Control Studies; Control Groups; Declarative memory; Discrimination, Psychological - physiology; Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes; Feature conjunctions; Hippocampus; Hippocampus - pathology; Hippocampus - physiology; Humans; Matched-Pair Analysis; Medial temporal lobe; Medical sciences; Memory; Middle Aged; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurological Impairments; Neurology; Neuropsychological Tests; Object discrimination; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Patients; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Perception; Perirhinal cortex; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Reference Values; Task Analysis; Temporal Lobe - pathology; Temporal Lobe - physiology; Visual Perception; Visual Perception - physiology; Visual Stimuli; Feature conjunctions; Perception; Amnesia; Perirhinal cortex; Declarative memory; Hippocampus; Object discrimination; Medial temporal lobe; Human; Memory disorder; Temporal lobe; Nervous system diseases; Cognitive disorder; Central nervous system; Cognition; Representation; Cerebral disorder; Discrimination; Vision; Central nervous system disease; Stimulus complexity; Neurological disorder

There has been considerable debate as to whether structures in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) support both memory and perception, in particular whether the perirhinal cortex may be involved in the perceptual discrimination of complex objects with a large number of overlapping features. Similar exper...