In the eye of the beholder: visual experience and categories in the human brain.
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.
Haushofer
Johannes
J
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. haushof@fas.harvard.edu
Kanwisher
Nancy
N
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*