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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2016 Apr 12;134:170–179. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.012

Fig. 2. Typical exemplars are more correlated with category central tendency than less typical exemplars in object-selective cortex.

Fig. 2

Correlation between category central tendency and most typical exemplar in each category (orange) or least typical exemplar in each category (blue), averaged across all 8 basic level categories. In object-selective cortex (LOC), typical categories are more similar to the average category representation than less typical categories and this effect is not present in early visual areas. (Inset) We performed a similar analysis using the image-level features from our stimulus set: LAB color histograms (C), GIST features (G), and multi-scale Gabor wavelet features (W). All features show similar values for both highly typical and less typical exemplar correlations, with the GIST and wavelet features exhibiting an opposite trend to our LOC results (higher correlation for less typical exemplars). Therefore, low-level stimulus features cannot solely explain our results in object-selective cortex. *** P<0.001, ** P<0.01, n.s. – not significant. Error bars: 95% confidence interval.