NIH R01 · 2025
Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Category Recognition and Learning
Summary and Relevance of Proposed Research Humans have an impressive capacity to recognize the category membership of sensory stimuli. This ability, which is disrupted by a brain-based diseases and conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, stroke, and attention deficit disorder, is critical because it allows us to respond appropriately to the stimuli and events that we encounter in the environment. We are not born with an innate library of categories, such as “tables” and “chairs”, which we are preprogrammed to recognize. Instead, we learn to recognize familiar categories through experience. Our recent work has shown that both the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and prefrontal…
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