Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition

By Isabel Gauthier, Pawel Skudlarski, John C. Gore, A. Anderson. Nature Neuroscience, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Matching Categorical Object Representations in Inferior Temporal Cortex of Man and Monkey (2008, result): “Our findings are also consistent with the idea that IT contains specialized features or processing mechanisms for faces and bodies (Puce et al., 1995; Kanwisher et al., 1997; Downing et al., 2001; but see also Gauthier et al., 2000).”
The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. (2003, background): “These processing benefits are linked to functional reorganizations in the response properties of a region of the right fusiform gyrus [ 32 ], which are also associated with changes in the response properties of ERPs recorded within the first 200 ms of processing stimuli [33].”
Interaction of Face and Voice Areas during Speaker Recognition (2005, positive): “As effects of familiarity and expertise have been observed in the FFA ( Gauthier, Skudlarski, Gore, & Anderson, 2000; Tarr & Gauthier, 2000), its response to voices of familiar persons could alternatively be seen as a supramodal effect resulting from convergence of inputs from segregated perceptual”
The dynamics of object-selective activation correlate with recognition performance in humans (2000, background): “Are distinct regions within occipitotemporal cortex specialized for specific recognition tasks? For example, are there dedicated regions for subordinate-level recognitio”
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.”
Configural Face Processing Develops more Slowly than Featural Face Processing (2002, background): “Likewise, Gauthier et al (2000) found that pictures of cars and birds activate the fusiform face area, a cortical area highly responsive to faces, when shown to car and bird experts, respectively.”
The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces (2006, background): “Before reviewing the relevant literature on the FFA, we briefly synopsize the evidence for the face-specificity hypothesis from other methods.”
FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise (2000, background): “These studies find that the response of FFA to non-face objects is affected by these manipulations independent of particular stimulus geometrie”