Subpopulations of neurons in the perirhinal cortex enable both modality-specific and modality-invariant recognition of objects

Object recognition has mainly been studied using unimodal stimuli. This study shows that a subpopulation of neurons in the perirhinal cortex uses unimodal and multimodal sensory information both for flexible recognition of a multimodal object based on unimodal cues, and for episodic experience of the object.