Figure 3.

Low-level image properties predict patterns of neural response to different visual scenes in scene-selective regions. (A) Topographic patterns of response to city, indoor, and natural conditions on lateral and ventromedial surfaces of the brain. Red/yellow and blue/light blue represent positive and negative fMRI responses relative to the mean response across all objects. Correlation matrices showing the correlations in (B) fMRI response and (C) image properties of different scene categories. (D) Scatter plot showing a strong positive correlation, r = 0.91, between the correlation matrices in (B) and (C), demonstrating that patterns of fMRI response are closely linked to low-level image properties.