The Fusiform Face Area is Part of a Network that Processes Faces at the Individual Level

By Isabel Gauthier, Michael J. Tarr, J. Moylan, Pawel Skudlarski, John C. Gore, A. Anderson. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Citations in the corpus

• The role of MT+/V5 during biological motion perception in Asperger Syndrome: An fMRI study (2007, neutral): “…consistent with weak central coherence theory, as this region has been implicated in the processing of visual configuration (sometimes referred to as ‘‘holistic processing’’) (Gauthier, Behrmann, & Tarr, 1999; Gauthier et al., 2000; Kanwisher, McDermott, & Chun, 1997; Schultz et al., 2000).”
• Development of human visual function. (2011, neutral): “(OFA) (Gauthier et al., 2000) which may reperesent an earlier level in the face-processing network than the FFA (Liu, Harris, &”
• The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, background): “Nonetheless, the facespecificity hypothesis of the FFA has been challenged with a number of other alternatives that we discuss next (Gauthier et al. 2000a; Haxby et al. 2001).”
• Activation of the visual cortex in motivated attention. (2003, background): “Although a number of previous studies have explored activity in the fusiform gyrus as it varies during face perception, using affectively neutral stimuli (Gauthier et al., 2000; Halgren et al., 1999; McCarthy, Puce, Gore, & Allison, 1997), in the current study, few differences were found in particip”
• Perception of Face Parts and Face Configurations: An fMRI Study (2010, neutral): “Puce, Gore, & Allison, 1997), found in the mid-fusiform gyrus; the occipital face area (OFA) (Gauthier et al., 2000),”
• Specialization within the ventral stream: the case for the visual word form area (2004, background): “Such a distinction is supported by several neuroimaging studies (e.g. Booth et al., 2002b; see review in Giraud and Price, 2001) as well as by intracranial recordings (Nobre et al., 1994, 1998).”
• Distinct representations for facial identity and changeable aspects of faces in the human temporal lobe (2004, background): “This region of activation is likely to correspond to regions previously described as the LOC (Avidan et al., 2002; Grill-Spector et al., 1999), the inferior occipital gyrus (Hoffman and Haxby, 2000) or the occipital face area (Gauthier et al., 2000).”
• Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization (2017, background): “the FFA and other core structures to facilitate the perception of a target’s personal identity, emotional expression, and intentions (Fairhall & Ishai, 2007; Gauthier et al., 2000).”
• Self-face recognition activates a frontoparietal "mirror" network in the right hemisphere: an event-related fMRI study (2005, neutral): “Additionally, the right inferior occipital gyrus has also been shown to exhibit greater responses to faces than to other stimuli (Gauthier et al., 2000), and a recent combined lesion and neuroimaging study has demonstrated that the right inferior occipital gyrus is necessary for normal face…”
• Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area. (2002, background): “This region may be the equivalent, in the domain of word perception, of the so-called Occipital Face Area, a region of similar location responding to faces more than to common objects or letters (Kanwisher et al., 1997; Gauthier et al., 2000).”
• Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces (2018, methodology): “While the original model stipulated that the core system consisted of the occipital face area (OFA), fusiform face area (FFA), and posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) (Gauthier et al., 2000; Haxby et al., 1994; Haxby et al., 2000; Haxby & Gobbini, 2007; Haxby & Gobbini, 2011; Kanwisher, McDerm”
• FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise (2000, background): “The FFA and a similarly selective occipital area (‘OFA’) in the right hemispher”