How the brain categorizes thousands of objects and actions
Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 14:40
in Mathematics & Economics
Humans perceive numerous categories of objects and actions, but where are these categories represented spatially in the brain? Researchers have undertaken the remarkable task of determining how the brain maps over a thousand object and action categories when subjects watched natural movie clips. The results demonstrate that the brain efficiently represents the diversity of categories in a compact space.