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Nature Neuroscience - 9, 1207 - 1208 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nn1006-1207

Walk the line: parietal neurons respect category boundaries

Vincent P Ferrera & Jack Grinband

The authors are at the Mahoney Center for Brain and Behavior, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, New York 10032, USA. vpf3@columbia.edu

Categorization of objects has been considered a function of the temporal 'what' pathway, but a new paper shows that neurons in the lateral intraparietal area of the 'where' pathway show learned responses based on category boundaries.

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