Selectivity for the human body in the fusiform gyrus.

By Marius V. Peelen, Paul E. Downing. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2005

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Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “The fusiform gyrus probably relates to the awareness of the presence of a face (110), and it is also activated when subjects view bodies without faces (83, 182).”
A continuous semantic space describes the representation of thousands of object and action categories across the human brain (2012, background): “…Halgren et al., 1999; Kanwisher et al., 1997; McCarthy et al., 1997; Rajimehr et al., 2009; Tsao et al., 2008), body parts (Downing et al., 2001; Peelen and Downing, 2005; Schwarzlose et al., 2005), outdoor scenes (Aguirre et al., 1998; Epstein and Kanwisher, 1998), and human body movements…”
Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans (2008, result): “Consistent with previous reports of body areas neighboring face areas in both macaques (11, 12) and humans (20, 23), we observed a stronger response to bodies than to the other nonface object categories across the macaque and human face regions (Fig.”
Two Takes on the Social Brain: A Comparison of Theory of Mind Tasks (2007, background): “The lateral fusiform cortex contains overlapping regions that respond selectively to faces (the fusiform face area; Kanwisher, McDermott, & Chun, 1997; McCarthy, Puce, Gore, & Allison, 1997), to body parts (the fusiform body parts area; Peelen & Downing, 2005 ), to animals (Chao, Martin, & Haxby, 1”
A common, high-dimensional model of the representational space in human ventral temporal cortex (2011, background): “, 2008b; Mahon and Caramazza, 2009), faces versus objects and body parts versus objects (the fusiform face and body-parts areas, FFAs and FBAs, respectively; Kanwisher et al., 1997; Peelen and Downing, 2005; Kriegeskorte et al., 2008b), and places versus objects (the parahippocampal place area, PPA;”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, background): “Thus, it is possible, for example, that any training effects on Greebles may arise from the body-selective 'fusiform body area' (FBA; Peelen & Downing 2005; Schwarzlose et al. 2005) which is adjacent to the FFA (see §3e) rather than from the FFA itself.”
Separate Face and Body Selectivity on the Fusiform Gyrus (2005, methodology): “Our localizer scans identified a fusiform body area (FBA), a body-selective region reported recently by Peelen and Downing (2005) that is anatomically distinct from the extrastriate body area.”
Unsupervised Learning of Invariant Representations in Hierarchical Architectures (2013, background): “These include regions that respond to scenes—the parahippocampal place area (PPA) [16]—written words—the visual word form area (VWFA) [9], and bodies—the extrastriate body area (EBA) and the fusiform body area (FBA) [15, 72].”
Attentional biases for faces and body parts (2007, background): “VISUAL COGNITION, 2007, 15 (3), 322 348 # 2007 Psychology Press, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business http://www.psypress.com/viscog DOI: 10.1080/13506280600590434 2001; Peelen & Downing, 2005).”
Neuroscientific Evidence for Simulation and Shared Substrates in Emotion Recognition: Beyond Faces (2009, background): “…parts compared with objects, faces, and other control stimuli, despite considerable anatomical overlap between the FBA and the face-selective FFA (Peelen & Downing, 2005; Schwarzlose et al., 2005) and between the EBA, motion processing area V5/MT, and object-form-selective lateral occipital…”
Intracranial EEG referencing for large-scale category-selective mapping in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (2025, unknown): “Also, while it is well known that the VOTC contains other category-selective responses, including to human bodies ( Peelen & Downing, 2005), written words (e.g., Devlin et al., 2006), and scenes and buildings (e.g., Aguirre et al., 1998; Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998), we focused on face-selective…”