Posterior parietal cortex: Space--and beyond.
How do we decide how to react to a stimulus or event? To do so requires recognition of the stimulus itself as well as an appreciation of the context within which that stimulus is encountered. In this issue of Neuron, Stoet and Snyder report that neurons in the parietal cortex of monkeys can carry contextual information related to the rules that are relevant for solving a visual discrimination task.
Freedman
David J
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Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, 220 Longwood Avenue WAB 222, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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