A Scalar Neural Code for Categories in Parietal Cortex: Representing Cognitive Variables as "More" or "Less"

作者：Chafee Matthew V^*

来源：Neuron, 2013, 77(1): 7-9.

DOI：10.1016/j.neuron.2012.12.025

In this issue, Fitzgerald et al. (2013) show that LIP neurons in monkeys encode categorically distinct task conditions using a scalar code. Activity scales up or down to encode different categories, with neurons maintaining proportional levels of activity in relation to one another.

• 出版日期2013-1-9