The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces

By Nancy Kanwisher, Galit Yovel. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006

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Neuroscientific Evidence for Simulation and Shared Substrates in Emotion Recognition: Beyond Faces (2009, background): “Faces constitute a category of visual object for which there is both selectivity (a preference for faces over other visual objects) and functional specialization in higher-level visual cortices (for reviews, see e.g. Atkinson et al., in press; Kanwisher & Yovel, 2006).”
The intrinsic memorability of face photographs. (2013, positive): “In functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, whereas selective cortical regions have been found for faces (Kanwisher & Yovel, 2006), scenes (Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998; Dilks, Julian, Paunov, & Kanwisher, 2013) and objects (Grill-Spector, Kushnir, Edelman, Avidan, Itzchak, & Malach,…”
The neural dynamics of updating person impressions. (2013, background): “Specifically, large portions of inferotemporal cortex, including the bilateral fusiform gyri, were less active for the last two trials than the first three trials for both consistent and inconsistent targets (Figure 3), most likely a result of habituation in response to the repeatedly-presented faci”
Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions (2011, positive): “Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of face perception reliably identify multiple face-selective cortical regions (Kanwisher and Yovel, 2006; Ishai, 2008; Fox et al., 2009; Pinsk et al., 2009), but the functional operations performed in these regions are not yet clearly understood.”
Object Perception-Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology (2020, background): “…(in and around the area known as fusiform gyrus) that are most highly active when observers view objects from specific categories of stim uli—faces (Kanwisher & Yovel, 2006; Perrett, Rolls, & Caan, 1982), bodies (Downing, Jiang, Shaman, & Kanwisher (2001), hands (Desimone, Albright, Gross, &…”
Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substrates. (2012, background): “This raises a fundamental question: do the same brain regions implement reward-learning computations for social and non-social rewards? Or might the areas that encode SV, PE and R be different for social rewards, analogously to the specialized perceptual processing of social stimuli (Kanwisher and Y”
Building a Science of Individual Differences from fMRI. (2016, background): “Functional localizers have a long and successful track record and can provide functional ROIs in individual subjects with only a few minutes of scanning, for processes ranging from face perception [40] to theory of mind [41,42].”
Search for patterns of functional specificity in the brain: A nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian model for group fMRI data (2011, background): “These maps clearly contain previously identified category selective areas, such as FFA, OFA, PPA, TOS, and RSC (Kanwisher and Yovel, 2006; Epstein et al., 2007).”
Brain basis of human social interaction: from concepts to brain imaging. (2009, background): “Nevertheless, the functional specification of the fusiform gyrus remains an issue of debate: some argue that it is a specialpurpose brain area for face processing (80, 130), whereas others suggest that it is related to gaining of expertise (76, BRAIN BASIS OF HUMAN SOCIAL INTERACTION 455”