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inferior temporal gyrus
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inferior temporal gyrus [in′fir·ē·ər ¦tem·pə·rəl ′jī·rəs]
(neuroscience)
A convolution on the temporal lobe of the cerebral hemispheres lying below the middle temporal sulcus and extending to the inferior sulcus.
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The two primary higher division of the visual system--the inferotemporal cortex (ITC) and posterior parietal cortex (PPC)--put the information they have gathered to different uses.
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In a fraction of a second, visual input about an object runs from the retina through increasingly higher levels of the visual stream, continuously reformatting the information until it reaches the highest purely visual level, the inferotemporal cortex (IT).
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