Each of these three categorization methods informs how we organize our homes and work spaces, how we allocate shelf and drawer space, and how we can sort things to make them easy and quick to find. Each time we learn or create a new category, there is neural activity in a circuit that invokes a prefrontal cortex–thalamic loop, alongside the caudate nucleus. It contains low-resolution maps of perceptual space (linking to the hippocampus); it associates a categorization space with a perceptual stimulus. Dopamine release strengthens synapses when you correctly categorize items according to a
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