How the brain distinguishes between objects-Study shows that a brain region called the inferotemporal cortex is key to differentiating bears from chairs

Lead author Rishi Rajalingham has conducted neural perturbation studies to control Inferotemporal cortex activity at a high spatial resolution by injecting a drug that completely silences all neural activity in a small targeted brain region. He found that silencing small regions of IT impaired the monkeys' abilities to discriminate between objects, demonstrating that IT is necessary for visual object recognition. Read the article…