Trained volunteers wire a learned category straight to motor output

Claim

Georgetown had volunteers sort look-alike cars 30,000 times in ten weeks, then scanned them and found their visual cortices had learned the categories and wired straight to motor output, bypassing the prefrontal cortex, so they could sort while distracted.

Reported metric: 30,000 trials

Reporting date: 2026-07-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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