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The ability to categorize objects depending on task demands is critical. A primate study finds that the prefrontal cortex signals to the parietal cortex during categorization, indicating an asymmetric, top-down interaction.

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Figure 1: Task and brain areas used to study categorization.

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  1. Jacqueline Gottlieb is in the Department of Neuroscience and the Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,

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Gottlieb, J. Slicing a pie is no piece of cake. Nat Neurosci 16, 1364–1366 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3520

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