Time course plots of signal change obtained from regions participating in object processing, background scene processing, and object and background-scene binding. Threshold set at p < 0.001 (uncorrected), except for the hippocampal head in which the threshold was p < 0.005 (uncorrected). In regions responsible for binding, signals elicited by NN, ON, and NO at the peak of the response curve, were each statistically different from the signal elicited by OO. However, the signals elicited by each of the three conditions did not differ significantly in peak amplitude.