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Categorizing the world: expert neurons look into key features

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In a Nature paper, Sigala and Logothetis record from infero-temporal cortex after monkeys learn a categorization task, and find increased sensitivity to features critical for the task.

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Figure 1: Visual stimuli and category structure in the face categorization task.

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Figure 2: Reciprocal interactions between temporal and prefrontal cortex, illustrated on the lateral view of a monkey brain.

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  1. Department of Physiology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan

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