Multi-voxel pattern analysis of face and object exemplar discrimination in occipital cortex.

All areas in the core face network as well as LOC contain information necessary to individuate faces and cars. Although the easier of the two tasks, between-category discrimination was comparable to within in most areas, with LOC showing better betweencategory discrimination consistent with its hypothesized role in object processing. Voxel weight magnitude correlations suggest that early processes common to both tasks may use overlapping neural populations giving rise to the positive correlations in OFA and LOC, which are not seen in FFA or STS, in which more specialized processes may recruit relatively distinct neural sub-populations. Multi-voxel pattern analysis of face and object exemplar discrimination in occipital cortex. Ipek Oruc1, Jason Barton1,2 1 Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences and 2 Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia