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Monitoring The Growth Of The Neural Representations Of New Animal Concepts, Andrew Bauer, Marcel Just
Monitoring The Growth Of The Neural Representations Of New Animal Concepts, Andrew Bauer, Marcel Just
Marcel Adam Just
Although enormous progress has recently been made in identifying the neural representations of individual object concepts, relatively little is known about the growth of a neural knowledge representation as a novel object concept is being learned. In this fMRI study, the growth of the neural representations of eight individual extinct animal concepts was monitored as participants learned two features of each animal, namely its habitat (i.e., a natural dwelling or scene) and its diet or eating habits. Dwelling/ scene information and diet/eating-related information have each been shown to activate their own characteristic brain regions. Several converging methods were used here …