The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification

By Kalanit Grill-Spector, Nicholas A. Knouf, Nancy Kanwisher. Nature Neuroscience, 2004

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Parallel amygdala and inferotemporal activation reflect emotional intensity and fear relevance (2005, background): “been clearly implicated in the processing of color, faces, and semantic categories (Bartels and Zeki, 2000; Chao et al., 1999; Gauthier et al., 2003; Grill-Spector et al., 2004).”
Cognitive computational neuroscience (2018, background): “For example, the findings of face-selective regions in the human ventral stream(21) have been thoroughly replicated and generalized.(22) Nonhuman primates probed with fMRI exhibited similar face-selective regions,(23) which had evaded explorations with invasive electrodes, because the latter do not ”
Face Recognition by Humans: Nineteen Results All Computer Vision Researchers Should Know About (2006, result): “Recent findings appear to favor the original Bface module[ account of the FFA’s function, however [ 28 ].”
Emotion and the motivational brain (2009, result): “…has been implicated in the processing color, faces, and semantic categories (Bartels and Zeki, 2000; Chao et al., 1999; Gauthier et al., 2003; Grill-Spector et al., 2004) and, as noted previously, we have consistently found greater activation of secondary visual processing centers when…”
Cytology and functionally correlated circuits of human posterior cingulate areas (2006, background): “In keeping with this view, sensory facial recognition processing occurs on the fusiform gyrus before assessments of emotional content in the cingulate gyrus (Grill-Spector et al., 2004).”
Perception of Face Parts and Face Configurations: An fMRI Study (2010, neutral): “For example, the FFA and the OFA, but not the fSTS, are correlated trial-by-trial with successful detection and identification of faces (Grill-Spector, Knouf, & Kanwisher, 2004 ), whereas attention to eye-gaze direction of faces (vs.”
Distributed Neural Systems for Face Perception (2011, background): “…nearby cortices also respond significantly during face recognition, and these non-maximal responses carry information about the distinction between faces and other stimuli (Haxby et al., 2001 ; Hanson et al., 2004 ) and are related to successful face identification (Grill-Spector et al., 2004 ).”