Data from: Fine-grained neural coding of bodies and body parts in human visual cortex

Body perception plays a fundamental role in social cognition. Yet, the
neural mechanisms underlying this process in humans remain elusive given
the spatiotemporal constraints of functional imaging. Here we present for
the first time intracortical recordings of single- and multi-unit spiking
activity in two epilepsy surgery patients in or near the extrastriate body
area (EBA), a critical region for body perception. Our recordings revealed
a strong preference for human bodies over a large range of control
stimuli. Notably, body selectivity was driven by a distinct selectivity
for body parts. The observed body selectivity generalized to
non-photographic depictions of bodies including silhouettes and stick
figures. Overall, our study provides unique neural data that bridge the
gap between human neuroimaging and macaque electrophysiology studies,
laying a solid foundation for computational models of human body
processing.