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Category Recognition in the Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex

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Brain-Inspired Information Technology

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 266))

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The orbitofrontal cortex (OBF) is known to play important roles in evaluation of reward value based on integration of multimodal sensory inputs. In this study, we investigated the complex cognitive functions in the OBF neurons from rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Glass-coated Elgiloy electrodes and tungsten fiber multi-barreled glass microelectrodes have been used for extracellular recording during behaving the visual discrimination task. As a result, Neurons showed a wide variety of selectivity for these complex images. OBF neurons are involved in various levels of categorization and integrate various endogenous humoral signals and specific exogenous sensory cues.

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  1. Department of Brain Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, Japan

    Takao Inoue, Balázs Lukáts, Tomohiko Fujimoto, Kotaro Moritake, Takeshi Hasegawa & Shuji Aou

  2. Institute of Physiology and Neurophysiology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pécs University, Medical School, Pécs, H-7624, Hungary

    Zoltán Karádi

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Inoue, T. et al. (2010). Category Recognition in the Monkey Orbitofrontal Cortex. In: Hanazawa, A., Miki, T., Horio, K. (eds) Brain-Inspired Information Technology. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04025-2_14

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