Figure 1.

Summary of the hypothesis. PRC integrates complex, multimodal, meaningful and fine-grained, distributed representations. Amygdala interconnects especially heavily and reciprocally with PRC, suggesting it contributes specialized representations for integration by PRC. Consistent with this, amygala represents such forms of intangible knowledge as valence, economic value, importance, noxiousness, social status, trustworthiness and social popularity. Taken together, it is hypothesized that amygala represents diverse forms of intangiable knowledge, that participate in distributed represntations of humans, objects and other stimuli. VTC, ventral temporal cortex; PHC, parahippocampal cortex; ERC, entorhined cortex; STS, superior temporal sulcus; OFC, orbitofrontal cortex; PRC, perirhined cortex.