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SUBMITTER: Engel TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382677 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150311
The ability to categorize stimuli into discrete behaviourally relevant groups is an essential cognitive function. To elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying categorization, we constructed a cortical circuit model that is capable of learning a motion categorization task through reward-dependent plasticity. Here we show that stable category representations develop in neurons intermediate to sensory and decision layers if they exhibit choice-correlated activity fluctuations (choice probability). ...[more]