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Review
. 2008 Nov 12;28(46):11796-801.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3799-08.2008.

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 Beeck  1 , James J Dicarlo, Jozien B M Goense, Kalanit Grill-Spector, Alex Papanastassiou, Manabu Tanifuji, Doris Y Tsao
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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 Beeck et al. J Neurosci. .

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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