Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

The inferior temporal cortex is a potential cortical precursor of orthographic processing in untrained monkeys

  • Rishi Rajalingham,
  • Kohitij Kar,
  • Sachi Sanghavi,
  • Stanislas Dehaene,
  • James J. DiCarlo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17714-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The neuronal mechanisms underlying recognition of written letters remain unknown. Here, the authors show that populations of neurons in the ventral visual pathway of macaque monkeys encode orthographic stimuli, indicating that this pathway might be a precursor of orthographic processing abilities.