As a prior J1 visa holder (postdoc at MIT), I express my support for all those affected by this decision. The possibility of such a sudden and politically motivated stop of enrollment of international students and scholars will have a chilling effect on the prestige of all US institutes. 1/3

With intracranial data we learned that the selectivity of most individual sites was characterized by an interaction between shape and category coding rather than a coding of shape or category irrespective of the other dimension (main effects). 7/n

For example, in the earlier fMRI study on shape and category, we noticed a combined coding of shape and category in many regions in higher level visual cortex, resulting in a population-level representational space with two dimensions: 6/n

The paper investigates body-selective responses regarding a variety of conditions, including separate body parts (hands, feet, faces) and viewing conditions (e.g., silhouettes; stick figures). 2/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...