Prefrontal Cortex Activity during Flexible Categorization

Items are categorized differently depending on the behavioral context. For instance, a lion can be categorized as an African animal or a type of cat. We recorded lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity while monkeys switched between categorizing the same image set along two different categor...

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Main Authors: Roy, Jefferson (Contributor), Riesenhuber, Maximilian (Author), Poggio, Tomaso A. (Contributor), Miller, Earl K. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Biological & Computational Learning (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Neuroscience, 2012-05-22T16:28:04Z.
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