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Neurones recorded from the monkey medial temporal lobe display evidence of memory for the previous occurrence of visual stimuli. In the inferomedial temporal cortex, 26 (20%) of 128 single units responded more strongly to the first presentations of visual stimuli which had not been seen recently than to subsequent presentations. Such declining responses were also found in the basolateral amygdala and ventral putamen. No such responses were found in the hippocampus, dentate gyrus or subicular cortex. These findings suggest that the inferomedial temporal cortex, rather than the hippocampal formation, plays a central role in recognition memory.
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Riches, I.P., Wilson, F.A.W., Brown, M.W. (1988). Neurones of the Medical Temporal Lobes and Recognition Memory. In: Haas, H.L., Buzsà ki, G. (eds) Synaptic Plasticity in the Hippocampus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73202-7_55
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