A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex - PubMed
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- Approximately 80% of visually responsive neurons in human ventral temporal cortex (VTC) represent objects using a distributed axis code.
- This axis code was used to reconstruct objects and create maximally effective synthetic stimuli.
- When subjects imagined specific objects, about 40% of axis-tuned VTC neurons reactivated the same code used in visual perception.
- Findings indicate that visual imagery is supported by the reactivation of neurons involved in perception, providing single-neuron evidence for a generative model in human VTC.