Similarity of cortical activity patterns predicts generalization behavior.

Humans and animals readily generalize previously learned knowledge to new situations. Determining similarity is critical for assigning category membership to a novel stimulus. We tested the hypothesis that category membership is initially encoded by the similarity of the activity pattern evoked by a...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Crystal T Engineer, Claudia A Perez, Ryan S Carraway, Kevin Q Chang, Jarod L Roland, Andrew M Sloan, Michael P Kilgard
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3797841?pdf=render