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Walk the line: parietal neurons respect category boundaries

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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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Figure 1: Reward-based models of LIP category learning.

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Ferrera, V., Grinband, J. Walk the line: parietal neurons respect category boundaries. Nat Neurosci 9, 1207–1208 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1006-1207

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