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in the complex stimulation sequence.
We implemented this approach in the
study of the functional organization of human
Uri Hasson,1* Yuval Nir,2 Ifat Levy,1,3 Galit Fuhrmann,1 cortex under free viewing of a long (30 min)
Rafael Malach1 uninterrupted segment taken from an original
audiovisual feature film (13). Subjects were
To what extent do all brains work alike during natural conditions? We explored instructed to freely view the movie segment
this question by letting ve subjects freely view half an hour of a popular movie and report its plot at the end of the experi-
while undergoing functional brain imaging. Applying an unbiased analysis in ment (14). We reasoned that such rich and
which spatiotemporal activity patterns in one brain were used to model complex stimulation will be much closer to
activity in another brain, we found a striking level of voxel-by-voxel synchro- ecological vision relative to the highly con-
nization between individuals, not only in primary and secondary visual and
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