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Modeling the Functional Network for Spatial Navigation in the Human Brain
Published on: October 13, 2023
An exemplar of model-based cognitive neuroscience
1Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
Abstract:
Are categories learned by forming abstract prototypes or by remembering specific exemplars? Mack, Preston, and Love observed that patterns of functional MRI (fMRI) brain activity were more consistent with patterns of representations predicted by exemplar models than by prototype models. Their work represents the theoretical power of emerging approaches to model-based cognitive neuroscience.
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