Tammar Kushnir

TL;DR: The utility of fMR adaptation for revealing functional characteristics of neurons in fMRI studies is demonstrated, namely, reduction of the fMR signal due to repeated presentation of identical images.

TL;DR: The results suggest that recognition performance is correlated with selective activation in object areas, and that subjects' recognition during identical visual stimulation could be enhanced by training, which also increased the fMRI signal.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used in combined functional selectivity and retinotopic mapping tests to reveal object‐related visual areas in the human occpital lobe and suggest the existence of object‐fragment representation in LO.

TL;DR: FMRI techniques can be used to investigate the internal representation of objects in the human visual cortex and reveal that the activation of most voxels in object-related areas remains unaffected by a coarse scrambling of the natural images used as stimuli and that a map of the representation space of object categories in individual subjects can be derived from the distributed pattern of voxel activation in those areas.

TL;DR: The results reveal shape selective activation from images of objects defined purely by stereoscopic cues in the human ventral stream, and show a significant correlation between recognition and fMRI signal in the object‐related occipito‐temporal cortex (lateral occipital complex).