In Ungerleider and Mishkin's (1982) study of the ventral and dorsal pathways in the brain, monkeys were trained to find food in a covered bin using either a landmark or an object to identify the correct bin. Following lesions of the inferotemporal cortex, they were no longer able to successfully:
A) do the landmark task.
B) do the object task.
C) do either the landmark or object task.
D) eat the food once it had been found.

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The inferotemporal cortex is part of the ventral stream of the visual processing system, which is crucial for object recognition. Lesions in this area would impair the ability to recognize objects, hence affecting the performance in tasks requiring object identification, such as identifying the correct bin by an object in Ungerleider and Mishkin's study.

In Ungerleider and Mishkin's (1982) Study of the Ventral and Dorsal