Examines the hypothesis that enlargement in cortical stimulus representation is a mechanism of categorical perception. Categorical perception is tested using discrimination and identification ability.
Model Type: Realistic Network
Region(s) or Organism(s): Auditory cortex
Model Concept(s): Perceptual Categories; Audition
Simulation Environment: MATLAB
Implementer(s): Bao, Shaowen [sbao at berkeley.edu]; Kim, Heesoo [heesoo at berkeley.edu]
References:
Kim H, Bao S. (2008). Distributed representation of perceptual categories in the auditory cortex. Journal of computational neuroscience. 24 [PubMed]