1. STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Jiang, X., Bradley, E., Rini, R.A., Zeffiro, T., VanMeter, J., Riesenhuber, M. (2007). Categorization training results in shape- and category-selective human neural plasticity. Neuron, 53,
THEORY AND METHODS
FINDINGS & GRAPHIC
How do people represent new categories in the brain and how does this interact with fine object discrimination?
Late visual areas (LO) showed increased discrimination between stimuli after training and sensitivity to category boundaries.
Right Pre-frontal cortex BOLD activity level correlated with categorization ability after training
Scan  Category training  Scan again
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
Strengths: careful stimulus creation, interesting look at basic perception versus higher-level generalizations
Weaknesses: No account for differences in direction of BOLD signal. Would be interesting to see this with conceptual categorization instead of a shape categorization.
Jessica Tsang | ED368 Cognitive Development |