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SUBMITTER: Huth AG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3556488 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huth Alexander G AG Nishimoto Shinji S Vu An T AT Gallant Jack L JL
Neuron 20121201 6
Humans can see and name thousands of distinct object and action categories, so it is unlikely that each category is represented in a distinct brain area. A more efficient scheme would be to represent categories as locations in a continuous semantic space mapped smoothly across the cortical surface. To search for such a space, we used fMRI to measure human brain activity evoked by natural movies. We then used voxelwise models to examine the cortical representation of 1,705 object and action categ ...[more]