FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise

By Michael J. Tarr, Isabel Gauthier. Nature Neuroscience, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Invariance Hypothesis Implies Domain-Specific Regions in Visual Cortex (2014, background): “Many authors have argued that seemingly domain-specific regions are actually explained by perceptual expertise [110, 24, 26, 25, 27].”
Distinct representations for facial identity and changeable aspects of faces in the human temporal lobe (2004, background): “In conclusion, these results suggest that face-selective regions within the inferior temporal lobe are involved in the perception and recognition of faces, and perhaps other specialised object categories (Tarr and Gauthier, 2000).”
On Construing Others: Category and Stereotype Activation from Facial Cues (2006, background): “…Roche–Miranda, & Bender, 1972; Kanwisher et al., 1997) or whether humans develop an expertise for faces through experience (Gauthier, Anderson, Tarr, Skudlarski, & Gore, 1997; Tarr & Gauthier, 2000), the ability to recognize and interpret subtle facial cues greatly simplifies social perception.”
The human visual cortex. (2004, background): “A fourth hypothesis, held by Tarr & Gauthier (2000) suggests that object representations are clustered according to the type of processing required rather than according to their visual attributes.”
Measuring structural-functional correspondence: Spatial variability of specialised brain regions after macro-anatomical alignment (2012, neutral): “due to its role in face processing (e.g. Grill-Spector et al., 2004; Kanwisher et al., 1999; Tarr and Gauthier, 2000; Weiner and GrillSpector, 2010).”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, background): “…and similarly to a wide variety of face stimuli that would appear to have few low-level features in common, including front and profile photographs of faces (Tong et al. 2000), line drawings of faces (Spiridon & Kanwisher 2002), cat faces (Tong et al. 2000) and two-tone stylized 'Mooney faces'.”
Representing and anticipating human actions in vision (2002, background): “…that human action representation and anticipation are supported by a specialized architecture hard-wired in the brain (e.g., Peigneux et al., 2000), are still a matter of debate (Decety & Grèzes, 1999; cf., Kanwisher, 2000, and Tarr & Gauthier, 2000, for a similar discussion on face processing).”
The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. (2003, background): “... have response properties that show specific sensitivity to invariant and abstract properties of a class of stimuli that never existed before the relatively recent invention of alphabetic writing systems? In addressing this question, we draw upon the deep parallels between word form skills and mo”
A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. (2003, background): “, 1982) and need to be recognized at the individual level for ef®cient social interactions (Tarr and Gauthier, 2000; Tanaka, 2001).”
The Massive Redeployment Hypothesis and the Functional Topography of the Brain (2007, background): “Now, let us assume, for the sake of the discussion, that the brain topographer is interested only in the necessary participants in cognitive function.”
Face processing occurs outside the fusiform 'face area' in autism: evidence from functional MRI. (2001, background): “On the other hand, if FFA reflects the emergence of a special processing capacity driven by extensive experience with faces (Tarr and Gauthier, 2000), then the mature autistic FFA might be predicted not to be engaged by human faces.”
The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition. (2001, background): “In a recent report, Gilaie-Dotan, Ullman, Kushnir, Steinberg and Malach (2000) demonstrated that voxels showing preferential activation to luminancedefined objects were also activated preferentially by stereo-defined objects.”
Mechanisms of face perception. (2008, background): “According to this hypothesis the FFA is engaged not in processing faces per se, but rather in processing any sets of stimuli that share a common shape, and for which the subject has gained substantial expertise (Tarr & Gauthier 2000).”
Language-specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area. (2002, background): “This appears to be the case, as the coordinates of the VWFA are essentially symmetrical to those of the FFA (Kanwisher et al., 1997; Tarr and Gauthier, 2000).”