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Preferential Encoding of Visual Categories in Parietal Cortex Compared with Prefrontal Cortex Swaminathan S.K. and Freedman D.J. Nature Neuroscience, 15: 315-320, 2012.      University of Chicago Press Release about this article
Generalized Associative Representations in Parietal Cortex Fitzgerald J.K., Freedman D.J., and Assad J.A. Nature Neuroscience, 14: 1075-1079, 2011.
A Proposed Common Neural Mechanisms for Categorization and Perceptual Decisions Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A. Nature Neuroscience, 14: 143-146, 2011.      Science Life article by Robert Mitchum
Distinct Encoding of Spatial and Non-Spatial Factors in Parietal Cortex Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A. Journal of Neuroscience, 29: 5671-5680, 2009.
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, 100: 1407-1419, 2008.
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.
Experience-Dependent Representation of Visual Categories in Parietal Cortex Freedman D.J. and Assad J.A. Nature, 443: 85-88, 2006.       News and Views by Vincent Ferrera and Jack Grinband       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.
Posterior Parietal Cortex: Space...and Beyond Freedman D.J. Neuron, 42: 881-883, 2004.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.                 View cover image
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.

Recent Abstracts Direction Selectivity in Parietal Cortex During Visual Motion Matching Sarma A. and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2011. Interactions Between Spatial and Non-Spatial Encoding in Parietal Cortex During Visual Categorization Rishel C.A., Huang G., and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2011. Comparing the Representation of Novel and Familiar Stimuli in Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortices McKee J.L., Thomas S.L., and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2011. Distinct Roles of Parietal and Frontal Cortices in Visual Categorization Swaminathan S.K. and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2011. Comparing the Roles of the Prefrontal, Lateral Intraparietal, and Medial Intraparietal Cortices in Category-Based Decision Making Swaminathan S.K., McClellan S.M., and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010. The Influence of Saccades on Visual Feature Selectivity in Parietal Cortex Rishel C.R. and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010. A Comparison of Stimulus Selectivity Between Spiking and Local Field Potential Activity During Visual Categorization Sarma A, Swaminathan S.K. and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2010. Comparison of Prefrontal and Parietal Cortices in Visual Motion Categorization Swaminathan S.K., McClellan S.M., Rishel C.R., and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2009. Associative Representations in Lateral Intraparietal Area Fitzgerald J.K. Assad J.A and Freedman D.J. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 2008.