Category representation and generalization in the prefrontal cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1083-1091

  Pan, Xiaochuan ^a,b   Sakagami, Masamichi ^a  

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Categorization; Inference; Inferotemporal cortex; Monkey; Reward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLASSIFICATION; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; LEARNING; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD;

EID: 84859345638     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07981.x     Document Type: Article

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