{"pk":26809,"title":"Functionally localized representations contain distributed information:insight from simulations of deep convolutional neural networks","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Preferential activation to faces in the brain’s fusiform gyrus hasled to the proposed existence of a face module termed theFusiform Face Area (FFA) (Kanwisher et. al, 1997). However,arguments for distributed, topographical object-formrepresentations in FFA and across visual cortex have beenproposed to explain data showing that FFA activation patternscontain decodable information about non-face categories(Haxby et. al, 2001; Hanson & Schmidt, 2011). Using two deepconvolutional neural network models able to perform human-level object and facial recognition, respectively, wedemonstrate that both localized category representations(LCRs) and high-level face-specific representations allow forsimilar decoding accuracy between non-preferred visualcategories as between a preferred and non-preferred category.Our results suggest that neuroimaging of a cortical “module”optimized for face processing should yield significantdecodable information for non-face categories so long asrepresentations within the module are activated by non-facestimuli.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"module"},{"word":"localized categorical representation"},{"word":"distributed object-form topography"},{"word":"deep convolutional neuralnetwork"},{"word":"virtual electrophysiology"}],"section":"Talks: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7j91z26f","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nicholas","middle_name":" ","last_name":"Blauch","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Massachusetts","department":""},{"first_name":"Elissa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Aminoff","name_suffix":"","institution":"Fordham University","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Tarr","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26809/galley/16445/download/"}]}