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. 2013 Aug 21;79(4):615-7.
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2013.08.001.

Scene areas in humans and macaques

Russell A Epstein  1 , Joshua B Julian
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Scene areas in humans and macaques

Russell A Epstein et al. Neuron. .

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Kornblith et al. (2013) identify two regions in macaque occipitotemporal cortex that encode both spatial and nonspatial aspects of visual scenes and might be the homolog of the human parahippocampal place area.

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Three possible manipulations of a scene. Kornblith et al. examined viewpoint and texture manipulations. The effect of changing geometry has yet to be explored.
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