A cortical representation of the local visual environment

By Russell A. Epstein, Nancy Kanwisher. 1998

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SUN database: Large-scale scene recognition from abbey to zoo (2010, background): “However, any restricted set of categories fails to capture the richness and diversity of environments that make up our daily experience.”
Top-down Enhancement and Suppression of the Magnitude and Speed of Neural Activity (2005, methodology): “…functional localizer task was administered to identify regions in the visual association cortex (VAC) selective for faces (fusiform face area [FFA]; Kanwisher, McDermott, & Chun, 1997; Puce, Allison, Gore, & McCarthy, 1995) and scenes (parahippocampal place area [PPA]; Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998).”
THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF WORKING MEMORY (2007, methodology): “For fMRI, we used an independent functional localizer to identify both stimulusselective face regions (within the fusiform face area or FFA; Kanwisher et al. 1997) and scene regions (within the parahippocampal place area or PPA; Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998).”
Mapping directed influence over the brain using Granger causality and fMRI (2005, background): “The stimulus categories used are known to activate specific inferotemporal areas, the fusiform face area (FFA) for face stimuli (Kanwisher et al., 1997) and the parahippocampal place area (PPA) for house stimuli (Epstein and Kanwisher, 1998).”
When is scene identification just texture recognition? (2004, background): “There is also evidence for specialized brain areas that process places: the parahippocampal place area (PPA) is thought to process information about the layout or geometry of the scene (Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998).”
Reflecting upon Feelings: An fMRI Study of Neural Systems Supporting the Attribution of Emotion to Self and Other (2004, background): “For other judgments, activation was observed in a parahippocampal region implicated in encoding visual and spatial cues that designate specific places (Epstein & Kanwisher , 1998).”
Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles (2015, methodology): “…towards foveal representations that is related to the need for high-resolution vision during face processing (Hasson et al., 2002), and the PPA (Epstein and Kanwisher, 1998) shows peripheral visual field biases (Levy et al., 2001), presumably because scenes used in navigation are recognized at…”
Visual attention: Insights from brain imaging (2000, background): “when subjects attended to the faces, in the place-selective PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA”
Parahippocampal and retrosplenial contributions to human spatial navigation (2008, methodology): “the stove with all background information removed) [45], and more strongly to scenes that retain their spatial organization than to scenes whose surfaces have been rearranged so that they no longer define a coherent 3D space [ 11 ].”