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SUBMITTER: Chan AW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2846985 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chan Annie W-Y AW Kravitz Dwight J DJ Truong Sandra S Arizpe Joseph J Baker Chris I CI
Nature neuroscience 20100307 4
Faces and bodies are perhaps the most salient and evolutionarily important visual stimuli. Using human functional imaging, we found that the strength of face and body representations depends on long-term experience. Representations were strongest for stimuli in their typical combinations of visual field and side (for example, left field, right body), although all conditions were simply reflections and translations of one another. Thus, high-level representations reflect the statistics with which ...[more]