20 Sep 2013
September 20, 2013

Task- and Experience-dependent Cortical Selectivity to Features Informative for Categorization

Neuroscience

Van der Linden et al used computer generated images to study categorization in the human brain.  They found that the frontal cortex showed sensitivity to the features diagnostic for the categories, which is consistent with results from animal studies at the neuron level.

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