Is top-down control from prefrontal cortex necessary for visual categorization?
The brain mechanisms underlying visual object categorization remain unclear. In this issue of Neuron, Minamimoto and colleagues introduce a novel task that associates each category with a different incentive value, and they demonstrate that it can be learned within a single session even after ablation of the lateral prefrontal cortex.
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK. buckley@psy.ox.ac.uk
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