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SUBMITTER: Rajalingham R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7403350 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajalingham Rishi R Kar Kohitij K Sanghavi Sachi S Dehaene Stanislas S DiCarlo James J JJ
Nature communications 20200804 1
The ability to recognize written letter strings is foundational to human reading, but the underlying neuronal mechanisms remain largely unknown. Recent behavioral research in baboons suggests that non-human primates may provide an opportunity to investigate this question. We recorded the activity of hundreds of neurons in V4 and the inferior temporal cortex (IT) while naïve macaque monkeys passively viewed images of letters, English words and non-word strings, and tested the capacity of those ne ...[more]