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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… Read more