Summary: Current Biology 16, 2428­2433, December 19, 2006 ª2006 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2006.10.027
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Dual Time Scales for Categorical
Decision Making in Auditory Cortex
Elena Selezneva,1
Henning Scheich,1
and Michael Brosch1,
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1
Leibniz-Institut fu¨ r Neurobiologie
Brenneckestraße 6
39118 Magdeburg
Germany
Summary
Category formation allows us to group perceptual
objects into meaningful classes and is fundamental
to cognition. Categories can be derived from similarity
relationships of object features by using prototypes or
multiple exemplars, or from abstract relationships of
features and rules [1­3]. A variety of brain areas have

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