Figure 5. Face-selectivity and persistence-related fMRI activity.

(A) Peak fMRI responses to faces were higher in face-selective OFA and FFA as compared to object-selective LO; to a lesser degree, upright faces and animals showed higher peak fMRI responses than their inverted counterparts in the OFA and FFA but not LO. (B) Neural persistence was computed by subtracting fMRI responses to Persist trials from Vanish trials, matched by category, for the period indicated by the shaded area in Figure 4. Neural persistence was higher for upright faces and animals than their inverted counterparts, in all ROIs, even after similar differences in the peak (B) were taken into account. This pattern of results (B) was found in all three ROIs and closely resembles that observed in the behavioral results shown in Figure 2. Error bars show the standard error (SE) for the group (n = 12).