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Soo Hyun Park1*, Kenji W. Koyano1, Brian E. Russ1†‡§, Elena N. Waidmann1||, David B. T. McMahon1¶, David A. Leopold1,2*
1Section on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. 2Neurophysiology Imaging Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
*Corresponding author.
†Present address: Center for Biomedical Imaging and Neuromodulation, Nathan Kline Institute, Orangeburg, SC, USA.
‡Present address: Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
§Present address: Department of Psychiatry, New York University at Langone, New York, NY, USA.
║Present address: Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller Uni-versity, New York, NY, USA.
¶Present address: Neuronal Networks Section, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Abstract
During normal vision, our eyes provide the brain with a continuous stream of useful information about the world. How visually specialized areas of the cortex, such as face-selective patches, operate under natural modes of behavior is poorly understood. Here we report that, during the free viewing of movies, cohorts of face-selective neurons in the macaque cortex fractionate into distributed and parallel subnetworks that carry distinct information. We classified neurons into functional groups on the basis of their movie-driven coupling with functional magnetic resonance imaging time courses across the brain. Neurons from each group were distributed across multiple face patches but intermixed locally with other groups at each recording site. These findings challenge prevailing views about functional segregation in the cortex and underscore the importance of naturalistic paradigms for cognitive neuroscience.
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