Figure 4.

Illustration of distributed patterns of selectivity in human object-selective cortex. A, Location of the LOC in a single subject. LOC voxels in lateral occipital and ventral occipitotemporal cortex were selected as having a significant preference in the contrast (intact objects − scrambled images) (thresholded at p < 0.0001, uncorrected for multiple comparisons). Data are shown on top of the PALS human atlas using CARET software (Van Essen et al., 2001, 2002) in a ventrolateral view of the inflated cortical surface. B, Patterns of selectivity for the same subject in LOC in odd runs for one object class (“smoothies”) and in even runs for a few object classes. Responses are expressed as PSC relative to the mean response to all object classes. These selectivity maps are not thresholded for significance, and individual voxels rarely display reliable selectivity for particular object classes. Nevertheless, part of the pattern of selectivity across voxels replicates across independent datasets. For each object class shown for the even runs, the correlation with the selectivity pattern for smoothies in odd runs is given below the images.