Jennifer L. Schouten

TL;DR: The functional architecture of the object vision pathway in the human brain was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure patterns of response in ventral temporal cortex while subjects viewed faces, cats, five categories of man-made objects, and nonsense pictures, and a distinct pattern of response was found for each stimulus category.

TL;DR: It is proposed that the functional architecture of the ventral visual pathway is not a mosaic of category-specific modules but instead is a continuous representation of information about object form that has a highly consistent and orderly topological arrangement.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the failure of face Perception systems with inverted faces leads to the recruitment of processing resources in object perception systems, but this failure is not reflected by altered activity in face perception systems.

TL;DR: Women showed global increases in metabolism, whereas males had no global changes and some regional decreases in FDG uptake following idazoxan administration, which suggest gender differences in responses to α2-receptor blockade in brain as well.

TL;DR: Both subject age and sex appeared to influence the magnitude of responses and the higher dose of idazoxan produced increases in blood pressure, norepinephrine and growth hormone and slight increases in anxiety.