* Alternating zones selective to faces and written words in the human ventral occipitotemporal cortex.
- Recognition of faces and written words is associated with category-specific brain activation in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT). However, topological and functional relationships between face-selective and word-selective vOT regions remain unclear. In this study, we collected data from patients with intractable epilepsy who underwent high-density recording of surface field potentials in the vOT. "Faces" and "letterstrings" induced outstanding category-selective responses among the 24 visual categories tested, particularly in high-γ band powers. Strikingly, within-hemispheric analysis revealed alternation of face-selective and letterstring-selective zones within the vOT. Two distinct face-selective zones located anterior and posterior portions of the mid-fusiform sulcus whereas letterstring-selective zones alternated between and outside of these 2 face-selective zones. Further, a classification analysis indicated that activity patterns of these zones mostly represent dedicated categories. Functional connectivity analysis using Granger causality indicated asymmetrically directed causal influences from face-selective to letterstring-selective regions. These results challenge the prevailing view that different categories are represented in distinct contiguous regions in the vOT.
=>活動, 活躍, 働き, 動き, 活気
Overview of noun activity
The noun activity has 6 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (43) activity -- (any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity")
2. (36) action, activity, activeness -- (the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is
out of action")
3. (13) bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity -- (an organic process that takes
place in the body; "respiratory activity")
4. activity -- ((chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction;
"catalytic activity")
5. natural process, natural action, action, activity -- (a process existing in or produced by nature
(rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity")
6. activeness, activity -- (the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically;
"the level of activity declines with age")
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