title: In the eye of the beholder: visual experience and categories in the human brain.
abstract: How does experience change representations of visual objects in the brain? Do cortical object representations reflect category membership? In this issue of Neuron, Jiang et al. show that category training leads to sharpening of neural responses in high-level visual cortex; in contrast, category boundaries may be represented only in prefrontal cortex.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. haushof@fas.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haushofer
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanwisher
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*