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ArticleScientific reports2025

Relationship between functional structures and horizontal connections in macaque inferior temporal cortex.

Danling Hu, Takayuki Sato, Kathleen S Rockland, Manabu Tanifuji, Hisashi Tanigawa

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Danling HuDepartment of Neurosurgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Takayuki SatoLaboratory for Integrative Neural Systems, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Kathleen S RocklandDepartment of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.
Manabu TanifujiLaboratory for Integrative Neural Systems, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Saitama, Japan.
Hisashi TanigawaDepartment of Neurosurgery of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Interdisciplinary Institute of Neuroscience and Technology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. hisashi.q@gmail.com.

Funding

National Key Research and Development Program of China 2018YFA0701402National Natural Science Foundation of China 31872776
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Horizontal connections in anterior inferior temporal cortex (ITC) are thought to play an important role in object recognition by integrating information across spatially separated functional columns, but their functional organization remains unclear. Using a combination of optical imaging, electrophysiological recording, and anatomical tracing, we investigated the relationship between stimulus-response maps and patterns of horizontal axon terminals in the macaque ITC. In contrast to the "like-to-like" connectivity observed in the early visual cortex, we found that horizontal axons in ITC do not preferentially connect sites with similar object selectivity. While some axon terminal patches shared responsiveness to specific visual features with the injection site, many connected to regions with different selectivity. Our results suggest that horizontal connections in anterior ITC exhibit diverse functional connectivity, potentially supporting flexible integration of visual information for advanced object recognition processes.

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Temporal LobeAnimalsAxonsBrain MappingMacacaMacaca mulattaMalePhotic StimulationVisual CortexVisual PathwaysAnterograde tracerIntrinsic connectionsIntrinsic signal optical imagingMonkeyNon-human primate

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PMID39870740
PMCPMC11772672

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