Sculpting new visual categories into the human brain
Coraline Rinn Iordan, Victoria J. H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Jonathan D. Cohen · 2024
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Description
Coraline Rinn Iordan and co-authors show that new visual categories can be carved straight into the human brain, without lessons or practice. They fed brain scan signals back to people in real time and shaped activity in the sight areas to match the patterns that learning would make.
After the shaping, people showed biases in sight and in brain response for the taught categories, but not for control ones. They did not know the shaping had been done. The method gives a clean way to test how brain patterns cause behavior. The authors see uses past sight, in thought, memory, and movement.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Coraline Rinn Iordan, Victoria J. H. Ritvo, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Jonathan D. Cohen |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |