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Inferior temporal (IT) cortex is known to be critical for visual pattern perception and recognition in adult monkeys, but not in infant ones. We found that cells in IT cortex ofinfant monkeys showed adult-like response properties, including form selectivity for complex patterns such as faces, as early as the second month of life. However, the neural responses were weaker and of longer latency, and moreover were virtually absent under anesthesia below about four months of age. Anatomical inputs from visual cortical regions were adult like early in infancy, whereas connectivity patterns with non-visual cortical regions appeared to have a more protracted period of maturation.
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Rodman, H.R., Gross, C.G., Scalaidhe, S.P. (1993). Development of Brain Substrates for Pattern Recognition in Primates: Physiological and Connectional Studies of Inferior Temporal Cortex in Infant Monkeys. In: de Boysson-Bardies, B., de Schonen, S., Jusczyk, P., McNeilage, P., Morton, J. (eds) Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life. NATO ASI Series, vol 69. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8234-6_6
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