Significance of objects in the perirhinal cortex

Marika C Inhoff; Charan Ranganath

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.008

Significance of objects in the perirhinal cortex

Trends Cogn Sci. 2015 Jun;19(6):302-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.008. Epub 2015 May 12.

Authors

Marika C Inhoff¹, Charan Ranganath²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Center for Neuroscience, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA. Electronic address: inhoff@ucdavis.edu.
² Department of Psychology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; Center for Neuroscience, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA. Electronic address: cranganath@ucdavis.edu.

PMID: 25979850
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.008

Abstract

The perirhinal cortex is known to play a role in recognition memory and visual perception of objects. A recent single-unit recording study adds to our understanding of perirhinal cortex function, suggesting that it may also play a role in evaluating the significance of objects in a context-dependent manner.

Keywords: association; context; items; learning; perirhinal cortex; reward.

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MeSH terms

Action Potentials / physiology*
Animals
Association Learning / physiology*
Cerebral Cortex / cytology*
Cues*
Male
Neurons / physiology*
Reward*