Fig. 1

Stimulus material. (A) In the localizer fMRI experiment, we showed the global shapes of either a circle or a square constructed from local images of squares or circles. All possible combinations of global and local elements were presented. The images were scrambled at two levels (20% and 80%) so that the global form could either be recognized (intact global shapes) or not (scrambled global shapes). (B) In the main fMRI experiment, we presented visual stimuli from three different categories: places, objects, and faces