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BILATERAL ablation of inferior temporal cortex gives rise to impairment of visual discrimination performance in monkeys. This visual impairment is not associated with a comparable tactile or auditory deficit. Nor is it a simple consequence of damage to the geniculo-striate visual afferent system. Such damage can often be excluded histologically; and direct comparison between the effects of temporal and striate ablations gave distinct patterns of impaired performance1.
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ETTLINGER, G. Relationship between Test Difficulty and the Visual Impairment in Monkeys with Ablations of Temporal Cortex. Nature 196, 911–912 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196911a0
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