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Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
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The functional architecture of the object vision pathway in the human brain was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure patterns of response in ventral temporal cortex while subjects viewed faces, cats, five categories of man-made objects, and nonsense pictures. A distinct pattern of response was found for each stimulus category. The distinctiveness of the response to a given category was not due simply to the regions that responded maximally to that category, because the category being viewed also could be identified on the basis of the pattern of response when those regions were excluded from the analysis. Patterns of response that discriminated among all categories were found even within cortical regions that responded maximally to only one category. These results indicate that the representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex are widely distributed and overlapping.
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“The VWFA hypothesis was framed in the broader context of recent studies of functional specialization within the human ventral visual stream, in which have been identified several areas specialized for other classes of visual stimuli such as faces, places, or body parts (Downing et al., 2001; Hasson et al., 2003; Haxby et al., 2001; Kanwisher et al., 1997).”
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“Rather, the density of neurons activated during reading probably varies continuously, though nonrandomly, across the surface of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex, thus creating a landscape of local preference for various categories of objects (Hasson et al., 2002; Haxby et al., 2001).”
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“Therefore, at the scale accessible to human neuroimaging, most if not all of the cortical surface is likely to respond jointly to words, faces, and objects, with smooth but systematic changes in local selectivity (Haxby et al., 2001).”
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- Authors
- Haxby, J. V., Gobbini, M. I., Furey, M. L., Ishai, A., Schouten, J. L., & Pietrini, P.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Pisa (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Haxby, James V.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2001-09-28
- Volume
- 293
- Issue
- 5539
- Pages
- 2425-2430
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2089632738
- Cited by
- 3,940
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- FWCI
- 27.42
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- journal article
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- en
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- face perception, object recognition, ventral temporal cortex, distributed representations, face-selective regions
- MeSH terms
- Brain Mapping, Face, Female, Form Perception, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Temporal Lobe, Visual Pathways, Recognition, Psychology
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