Independent Encoding of Spatial and Nonspatial Factors in Parietal Cortex

David Freedman and Chris Rishel discuss their work examining the RELATIONSHIP between spatial and non-spatial cognitive signals in posterior parietal cortex. During performance of a visual categorization task, neuronal category signals were found to be encoded independently from spatial signals related to saccadic eye movements. For more information, see Rishel et al., Neuron 77(5). SHOW MORE