AbstractsPsychology

The visual functions of the temporal lobes have been known and extensively studied in the monkey since the demonstration by Kluver and Bucy (1939) that bilateral temporal lobectomy results in a severe deficit in visual ability. The importance of temporal neocortex in auditory perception, although taken for granted because of the location here of the primary auditory projection areas, has not been extensively studied in primates, but has been investigated in the cat. In man only a small number of studies bearing on these modality-specific functions has been done.