Faces and places: of central (and peripheral) interest

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Kanwisher, N [1 ]
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[1] MIT, Dept Brain & Cognit Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
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10.1038/87399
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
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Early visual cortical areas are organized in retinotopic coordinates. Levy and colleagues now report that category-selective regions show a similar organization, with face-selective areas responding more to central stimuli and place-selective areas responding to peripheral stimuli.
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