Learning the exception to the rule: Model-based fMRI reveals specialized representations for surprising category members

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 260-273

  Davis, Tyler ^a   Love, Bradley C ^a   Preston, Alison R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Center for Learning and Memory   (United States)

Author keywords

Category learning; Category representation; Exception learning; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; SUSTAIN

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SUSTAIN; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OXYGEN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863484247     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr036     Document Type: Article

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