A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body

By Paul E. Downing, Yuhong Jiang, Miles Shuman, Nancy Kanwisher. Science, 2001

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The Invariance Hypothesis Implies Domain-Specific Regions in Visual Cortex (2014, background): “, the fusiform face area (FFA)—is one of the most robust experimental findings in visual neuroscience [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, methodology): “Interestingly, regions selective for faces and bodies are also nearby or adjacent in the region of the STS in humans (Downing et al. 2001), and they are also adjacent in macaques (Pinski et al.”
Brain Areas Active during Visual Perception of Biological Motion. (2002, neutral): “Following the lead of Downing et al. (2001) , we”
An algorithmic method for functionally defining regions of interest in the ventral visual pathway (2012, methodology): “A threshold of p b 0.0001 was chosen because it has been used in numerous previous reports on ventral visual stream fROIs (e.g., Downing et al., 2001; Epstein and Kanwisher, 1998; Grill-Spector et al., 2004; Kanwisher et al., 1997; Spiridon et al., 2006; Yovel and Kanwisher, 2005).”
Attentional biases for faces and body parts (2007, background): “In line with recent reports demonstrating dedicated neural architecture for the processing of these biological stimuli (Downing et al., 2001; Kanwisher et al., 1997), these results suggest a fast and efficient mechanism for analysing faces and body parts.”
Hierarchical Modular Optimization of Convolutional Networks Achieves Representations Similar to Macaque IT and Human Ventral Stream (2013, background): “As we might expect different subregions of IT cortex to have different selectivities for object categories (for example face, body, and place patches [15, 10]), the output of the linear classifiers will also respond preferentially to different object categories.”
The neural basis of visual body perception (2007, background): “Another study recorded responses in the right lateral occipitotemporal cortex and found that one electrode, at the approximate location of the extrastriate body are”
Temporal cortex neurons encode articulated actions as slow sequences of integrated poses (2010, background): “A nearby region shows a strong preference for motionless bodies relative to other objects (Downing et al., 2001), and this preference correlates on a voxel-by-voxel basis with preference for biological versus scrambled motion (Peelen et al., 2006).”
Extrastriate body area in human occipital cortex responds to the performance of motor actions (2004, neutral): “The activated area in lateral cortex corresponded to the EBA, which responds selectively to images of human bodies or body part”