Table III.

Statistics for the percent signal change in the ring analysis for different areas

Distance at which t‐test is non‐significant*	P	Distance at which ANOVA test is non‐significant**	P	Increase in size (%)***
FFA
Faces‐scenes: 4 mm	0.13	3 mm	0.09	54.6 + −23.7
Faces‐body parts:‐	—
Faces‐objects: 2 mm	0.15
PPA
Scenes‐faces: 8 mm	0.24	7 mm	0.07	40.1 + −27.5
Scenes‐body parts: 4 mm	0.12
Scenes‐objects: 2 mm	0.15
EBA
Body parts‐faces: 7 mm	0.06	7 mm	0.11	70.5 + −34.3
Body parts‐scenes: 7 mm	0.05
Body parts‐objects: 6 mm	0.06
MT+
Moving‐static: 6 mm	0.1	6 mm	0.1	96.1 + −40.3

^*Distance from the border of the functional area at which the percent signal change between the preferred and non‐preferred categories is not significant anymore (t‐test).

^**Distance at which the one‐way ANOVA test on the percent signal change across categories is not significant anymore.

^***Gain in surface for the area defined by the drop in selectivity compared to the functional area. The gain in surface is averaged across subjects.

Since the signal for the body parts category was significantly higher than those for the other categories at all the distance studied outside MT+, we did not present the statistics for the object categories signal around MT+.