Visual cortex: Big data analysis uncovers food specificity.

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Vision and Cognition Lab, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address:

Published: October 2022

In visual cortex, anatomically distinct patches respond to distinct categories, such as faces or text. New research confirms this parcellation using unsupervised analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data obtained from humans viewing tens of thousands of images, discovering one more preference: for food.

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