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We can efficiently and rapidly recognize daily-life visual settings. A study finds that scene recognition involves the posterior object-selective visual cortex, where multiple within-scene objects are represented in parallel.

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Figure 1: Does lateral occipital cortex represent scene category or within-scene objects?

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  1. Marius V. Peelen is at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy,

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  2. Sabine Kastner is in the Department of Psychology and at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.,

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