Abstract
Experimental and clinical studies in primates indicate that visual information is stored and retrieved by interactions between the temporal association area and the medial temporal lobe structures including hippocampus. Recent findings from single-neuron recordings have provided new evidence that perceptuai aspects of the temporal neocortex are closely related to its memory function based on association. On the grounds that long-term memory of objects is acquired and organized by neuronal tuning and associative mechanisms, I further present a model of the cognitive memory system that unifies perception and imagery.
