Brain Areas Involved in Category-Specific Processing Participants were asked to silently name pictures of animals and tools while they were scanned with fMRI. The fMRIs revealed greater activity in the white areas when participants named animals, and in the black areas when participants named tools. Specific regions indicated by numbers include areas within the visual cortex (1, 2), parts of the temporal lobe (3, 4), and the motor cortex (5). Note that the images are left/right reversed.

ALEX MARTIN & LINDA CHAO, CURRENT OPINIONS NEUROBIOL 2001, 11:194–201