Monitoring the growth of the neural representations of new animal concepts.

ABSTRACT: 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 to capture the emergence of the neural representation of a new animal feature within these characteristic, a priori-

SUBMITTER: Bauer AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869301 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature