Visual categorization and the parietal cortex
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Visual categorization and the parietal cortex
The primate brain is adept at rapidly grouping items and events into functional classes, or categories, in order to recognize the significance of stimuli and guide behavior. Higher cognitive functions have traditionally been considered the domain of frontal areas. However, increasing evidence suggests that parietal cortex is also involved in categorical and associative processes. Previous work ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1662-5145
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00018