Fig. 7 ∣. Places from the Pokémon game elicit typical place-selective activations in experienced participants.

The maps show higher responses to Pokémon scenes than pixelated faces in 5 experienced participants from a follow-up fMRI experiment in which participants viewed downsampled face stimuli (resembling 8 bit game imagery) and scenes from the Pokémon games. The colour bar indicates the T value at each voxel from the threshold (T> 3) over the range denoted in the colour scale. Pokémon-selective voxels (outlined in black) do not preferentially respond to Pokémon scenes versus faces; instead, voxels preferring Pokémon scenes versus faces are in the typical location for place selectivity¹⁸, namely, the CoS (outlined in white).