Miller Earl K, Nieder Andreas, Freedman David J, Wallis Jonathan D
Picower Center for Learning and Memory, RIKEN-MIT Neuroscience Research Center, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2003 Apr;13(2):198-203. doi: 10.1016/s0959-4388(03)00037-0.
The ability to readily adapt to novel situations requires something beyond storing specific stimulus-response associations. Instead, many animals can detect basic characteristics of events and store them as generalized classes. Because these representations are abstracted beyond specific details of sensory inputs and motor outputs, they can be easily generalized and adapted to new circumstances. Explorations of neural mechanisms of sensory processing and motor output have progressed to the point where studies can begin to address the neural basis of abstract, categorical representations. Recent studies have revealed their neural correlates in various cortical areas of the non-human primate brain.
能够轻松适应新情况需要的不仅仅是存储特定的刺激-反应关联。相反，许多动物能够检测事件的基本特征并将其存储为广义类别。由于这些表征是从感觉输入和运动输出的特定细节中抽象出来的，它们可以很容易地被推广并适应新环境。对感觉处理和运动输出的神经机制的探索已经取得了进展，以至于研究可以开始探讨抽象的、分类表征的神经基础。最近的研究已经揭示了它们在非人类灵长类动物大脑的各个皮质区域的神经关联。
