Similarity judgments and cortical visual responses reflect different properties of object and scene categories in naturalistic images

Marcie L. King, Iris I. A. Groen, Adam Steel, Dwight J. Kravitz, Chris I. Baker

Abstract: Highlights•Different representational spaces for behavioral judgments and fMRI responses.•Strongest correspondence between behavior and fMRI in parahippocampal place area.•Both behavior and fMRI show good correspondence with deep neural network (DNN).•Behavior best correlates with highest DNN layer, fMRI with intermediate DNN layers.•Behavior mainly reflects conceptual properties, fMRI mainly visual properties.