Exploring the Roles of the Frontal, Temporal, and Parietal Lobes in Visual Categorization

Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Freedman, David J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Category; Delayed match to category task; Inferior temporal cortex; Macaque monkey; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921577732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314274.003.0021     Document Type: Chapter

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