The Freedman Laboratory

Department of Neurobiology

The University of Chicago


PI: David J. Freedman, Ph.D

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Journal Articles


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 Dynamic Population Coding of Category Information in the Inferior Temporal Cortex and
 Prefrontal Cortex
 Meyers E.M, Freedman D.J., Kreiman G., Miller E.K, and Poggio T.
 Journal of Neurophysiology, in press.


 Experience-Dependent Representation of Visual Categories in Parietal Cortex
 Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A.
 Nature, 443: 85-88, 2006.

 see Harvard's press release about this paper

       Nature Abstractions interview with David Freedman



 Experience-Dependent Sharpening of Visual Shape Selectivity in Inferior
 Temporal Cortex
 Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E.K.
 Cerebral Cortex, 16: 1631-1644, 2006
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 A Comparison of Primate Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortex During Visual
 Categorization
 Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E.K.
 Journal of Neuroscience, 23: 5235-5246
, 2003.


 Representation of the Quantity of Visual Items in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
 Nieder A., Freedman D.J., and Miller E.K.

 
Science, 297: 1708-1711, 2002.


 Visual Categorization and the Primate Prefrontal Cortex: 
 Neurophysiology and Behavior
 Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E.K.
 Journal of Neurophysiology, 88: 929-941, 2002.
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 Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex
 Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E.K.
 Science, 291: 312-316, 2001.


 

Reviews and Book Chapters


 Neural Mechanisms of Visual Categorization: Insights from Neurophysiology
 Freedman D.J. and Miller E.K.
 Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 32: 311-329, 2008.

 Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Categorization and Category Learning
 Freedman D.J.
 In: The Neuroscience of Rule-Guided Behavior.
 Wallis J.D. and Bunge S. (eds.). Oxford University Press, 2007.

 Posterior Parietal Cortex: Space...and Beyond
 Freedman D.J.
 Neuron, 42: 881-883, 2004.

 The Prefrontal Cortex: Categories, Concepts, and Cognition
 Miller E.K., Freedman D.J., Wallis J.D.
 In: The Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Parker A., Derrington A. and

 Blakemore C. (eds.), Oxford University Press, pp 252-273, 2003.

 Neural Correlates of Categories and Concepts
 Miller E.K., Nieder A., Freedman D.J., Wallis J.D.
 Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13:2:198-203, 2003.
 The Prefrontal Cortex: Categories, Concepts, and Cognition
 Miller E.K., Freedman D.J., Wallis J.D.
 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London: Biological Sciences
 357: 1123-1136, 2002.

 

News articles about this work

Science Perspectives by Simon J. Thorpe and Michèle Fabre-Thorpe
Nature News and Views by Hemai Parthasarathy  (PDF)
Nature Reviews Neuroscience Highlight by Peter Collins
MSNBC news article
ABC News article
CNN/Reuters news article
MIT News article

 

Selected Abstracts

Non-Spatial Encoding of Behaviorally Relevant Information in Parietal Cortex During Visual Motion Categorization.
Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2007.

Learning-Dependent Shape Representations in Lateral Intraparietal Area
Fitzgerald J.K. Assad J.A and Freedman D.J.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2007.


Experience-Dependent Representation of Visual Categories in Posterior Parietal Cortex Area LIP.
Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2006.

 

Categorical Representation of Visual Motion Direction in Posterior Parietal Cortex Area LIP.
Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2005.

 

Shape Tuning in Primate Inferior Temporal Cortex is Enhanced by Experience.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2004.

 

Experience-Dependent 2D Orientation Tuning in Primate Inferior Temporal Cortex.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Machon M, Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2003.

 

Stimulus-Specificity of Category-Related Neurons in the Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortices.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002.

 

Neurons in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex Reflect Numerical Information in Visual Displays.
Nieder A., Freedman D.J., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002.

 

Category-Tuning vs. Stimulus-Tuning in Inferotemporal and Prefrontal Cortex: Insights From Modeling.
Knoblich U., Freedman D.J., Poggio T., Miller E.K., Riesenhuber M.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2002.

 

Comparison of Primate Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortex Activity During Visual Categorization.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2001,  852.14.

 

Neuronal and Psychophysical Correlates of Categorical Perception.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Abstracts, 2001.

 

Neuronal Correlates of Categorical Learning in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 2000, 26:975.

 

Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex.
Freedman D.J., Riesenhuber M., Shelton C., Poggio T., Miller E.K.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 1999, 25:884