The organization of cortical regions associated with face and object recognition has been controversial. A new study uses high-resolution imaging to find that small intermingled cortical regions are very selective for particular categories.
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Haxby, J. Fine structure in representations of faces and objects. Nat Neurosci 9, 1084–1086 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0906-1084
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