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¹MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, United Kingdom. morgan.barense@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Debate exists on whether medial temporal lobe (MTL) structures support both memory and perception.
Specifically, the perirhinal cortex's role in discriminating complex objects with overlapping features is debated.
Previous studies on blended image discrimination yielded contradictory findings.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the role of the perirhinal cortex in perceptual object discrimination.
To differentiate the effects of hippocampal versus broader MTL damage on object perception tasks.

Main Methods:

Administered trial-unique object "oddity" tasks to amnesic patients and controls.
Patients had either selective hippocampal damage or more extensive MTL damage including the perirhinal cortex.
Tasks involved selecting the odd stimulus from a visual array under varying complexity.

Main Results:

Hippocampal-damaged patients performed similarly to controls across all conditions.
Patients with perirhinal cortex damage were significantly impaired in discriminating objects with many common features.
Perirhinal-damaged patients performed normally when stimuli differed by simple visual features.

Conclusions:

The perirhinal cortex is essential for the perceptual discrimination of complex objects.
Findings support the view that rostral inferotemporal cortex, including the perirhinal cortex, represents complex feature conjunctions for perception and memory.
This suggests a shared neural basis for complex object perception and memory in the MTL.