TY  - JOUR
TI  - Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex
AV  - none
Y1  - 2001/09//
UR  - http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1063736
JF  - Science
IS  - 5539
A1  - Haxby, James V.
A1  - Gobbini, Maria Ida
A1  - Furey, Maura L.
A1  - Ishai, Alumit
A1  - Schouten, Jennifer L.
A1  - Pietrini, Pietro
PB  - American Association for the Advancement of Science
SN  - 0036-8075
N2  - 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.
SP  - 2425
ID  - eprints3395
EP  - 2430
VL  - 293
ER  -