Fine-Scale Spatial Organization of Face and Object Selectivity in the Temporal Lobe: Do Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Optical Imaging, and Electrophysiology Agree?
- Hans P. Op de Beeck1,
- James J. DiCarlo2,*,
- Jozien B. M. Goense3,*,
- Kalanit Grill-Spector4,*,
- Alex Papanastassiou2,*,
- Manabu Tanifuji5,*, and
- Doris Y. Tsao6,7,*
- 1Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), B-3000 Leuven, Belgium,
- 2McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139,
- 3Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany,
- 4Department of Psychology and Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305,
- 5Laboratory Integrative Neural Systems, Riken Brain Science Institute, Saitama 351-0198, Japan,
- 6Institute for Brain Research, D-28359 Bremen, Germany, and
- 7Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
- Correspondence should be addressed to Hans P. Op de Beeck, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. hans.opdebeeck{at}psy.kuleuven.be
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↵*J.J.D., J.B.M.G., K.G.-S., A.P., M.T., and D.Y.T. contributed equally to this work.
Abstract
The spatial organization of the brain's object and face representations in the temporal lobe is critical for understanding high-level vision and cognition but is poorly understood. Recently, exciting progress has been made using advanced imaging and physiology methods in humans and nonhuman primates, and the combination of such methods may be particularly powerful. Studies applying these methods help us to understand how neuronal activity, optical imaging, and functional magnetic resonance imaging signals are related within the temporal lobe, and to uncover the fine-grained and large-scale spatial organization of object and face representations in the primate brain.
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