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Nature 412, 693-694 (16 August 2001) | doi:10.1038/35089173
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Neuroscience: Dynamic categories
Michael P. Kilgard
Abstract
Neuroscientists often study brain function by presenting a stimulus many times and averaging the neural response. A trick for finding brain activity in single trials might reveal how animals mentally categorize information.
One of the most enduring problems in biology is that of how the brain assigns meaning to the stimuli it receives. We naturally divide the world into convenient categories, but the brain mechanisms that underlie this ability are poorly understood.
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