Figure 1.

Measuring the representation of contextually defined objects. A, Context-based object perception is demonstrated in this painting by Georges Seurat, Grandcamp, Evening (1885), in which the boat is a coarse shape (enlarged underneath) gaining its meaning from scene context. B, Sample stimuli: animate and inanimate degraded objects, degraded objects in scenes, and scenes alone. C, Cross-decoding object animacy: classifier trained on the multivoxel (fMRI) or multisensor (MEG) response pattern to animate and inanimate intact objects, and then tested on animate and inanimate degraded objects, degraded objects in scenes and scenes alone.