Animal studies suggest that the perirhinal cortex subserves object perception while the hippocampus plays a role in spatial processing. In support of the former, we previously reported (Lee et al., SFN 2003) that patients with bilateral damage to the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex were significantly impaired on perceptual tasks that placed a significant demand on discriminating feature conjunctions (e.g. oddity judgement for novel faces and objects) but not tasks that could be solved using single features (e.g. oddity judgement for size, shape and colour). Patients with selective bilateral hippocampal lesions performed normally on all of these tests. These findings raised two further questions: (1) whether the findings could be extended into the spatial domain, with hippocampal damage resulting in impaired oddity judgement for spatial scenes and (2) whether problems with face and scene discrimination reflected damage to non-MTL regions (e.g., fusiform face area and parahippocampal place area). To invest...