Neurophysiology: sensing and categorizing.
Objects differ along many stimulus dimensions, but observers typically group them into fewer 'categories' according to their potential use or behavioral relevance. New experiments in awake, behaving monkeys open a window onto the process of stimulus categorization within the central nervous system.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.
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