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Self-supervised learning yields representational signatures of category-selective cortex

2026-02-10

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1. <h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The ventral visual stream contains category-selective regions with distinct feature tuning, most prominently the fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA). Why do these brain regions exhibit distinct tuning properties? Recent work suggests that brain-like category-selective features emerge from a general visual learning mechanism without domain-specific biases. Here, we te...

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DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.09.704031

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