The perirhinal cortex happens to be at the very top of the hierarchy of processing of information in the cortex. It accumulates information from multiple senses and then sends it back to the rest of ...

The functional organization of early visual areas seems to be largely determined during development. However, the organization of areas important for learning and memory, such as perirhinal cortex, ...

Scientists reveal a critical role for a brain area called the perirhinal cortex in managing this learning process. The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his ...

MRI Brain Scan Fig. 1 (IMAGE) University of South Florida (USF Health) Caption A normal MRI brain, showing no atrophy, depicts the three areas of interest in the brain's medial temporal lobe: ...