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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 30, Issue 25, Pages 8519-8528Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4837-09.2010
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- National Institute of Mental Health [2R01MH065252-06]
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Items are categorized differently depending on the behavioral context. For instance, a lion can be categorized as an African animal or a type of cat. We recorded lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC) neural activity while monkeys switched between categorizing the same image set along two different category schemes with orthogonal boundaries. We found that each category scheme was largely represented by independent PFC neuronal populations and that activity reflecting a category distinction was weaker, but not absent, when that category was irrelevant. We suggest that the PFC represents competing category representations independently to reduce interference between them.
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