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Fine structure in representations of faces and objects

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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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Figure 1: Three spatial scales for the neural code for face and object representation.

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