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Turning an object into a scene: buildings activate scene-selective visual cortex independently of visual features

2026-07-17

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Human visual cortex contains regions that selectively respond to both scenes and large objects, particularly buildings. The cortical overlap between buildings and scenes has been attributed to shared visual features (e.g., cardinal orientations, rectilinearity). Alternative accounts propose that buildings may also activate scene representations indirectly, independently of specific visual features, for example bec...

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Literature Corpus work: 0c31c659-5428-5ead-9ed2-fd52be6442c4
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.12.738103

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