Domain specificity in face perception

By Nancy Kanwisher. Nature Neuroscience, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification (2004, result): “Thus, the present data are consistent with the idea that the FFA is primarily engaged in the perceptual processing of face”
Development of human visual function. (2011, neutral): “One specialisation of extra-striate cortex for high-level pattern properties is the detection and recognition of human faces, particularly in the ‘fusiform face area’ (FFA) (Kanwisher, 2000).”
Associative recognition processes are modulated by the semantic unitizability of memoranda. (2014, background): “Nonetheless, since faces form a specific class of visual stimuli (either because their processing is mediated by domain-specific mechanisms [e.g., Kanwisher, 2000], or due to the effects of expertise with such stimuli, [e.g., Gauthier, Tarr, Anderson, Skudlarski, & Gore, 1999]), the examination of…”
Developmental deficits in social perception in autism: the role of the amygdala and fusiform face area (2005, background): “In a recent literature review, Kanwisher (2000) notes that FFA activity is at least twice as strong to faces as to a wide range of nonface stimuli, such as assorted objects, animals without heads, and the backs of human heads.”
A lifespan database of adult facial stimuli (2004, background): “Although debate continues, much evidence suggests that faces, in contrast to other visual objects, are uniquely processed in specific sites in the fusiform gyrus (Gross, Rocha-Miranda, & Bender, 1972; Haxby et al., 1994; Kanwisher, 2000; Kanwisher, McDermott, & Chun, 1997; Puce, Allison, Gore, & McC”
Individual differences in trait anxiety predict the response of the basolateral amygdala to unconsciously processed fearful faces. (2004, background): “…on behavioral response and the the banks of the calcarine fissure to regions in the fusi-activation of a widespread cortical attentional network form gyrus (Pessoa et al., 2003), which specialize inwere eliminated when analyzed independently of trait the processing of human faces (Kanwisher, 2000).”
The Invariance Hypothesis Implies Domain-Specific Regions in Visual Cortex (2014, background): “These considerations lead to a view of the ventral visual pathway in which category-selective regions implement a modularity of content rather than process [48, 49].”
Affective Judgments of Faces Modulate Early Activity (∼160 ms) within the Fusiform Gyri (2002, background): “Although the functional role of the FG remains controversial (Kanwisher , 2000; Tarr and Gauthier, 2000), this region may be involved in relatively early perceptual processing of faces, such as structural encoding 1 of the information required for face recognition (Tong et al., 2000; George et al.,…”
Perception of human motion. (2007, background): “The fusiform gyrus is a brain region often associated with face perception (e.g., Kanwisher 2000, Kanwisher et al. 1997), so it is not clear whether results of Bartels & Zeki reflect face perception, body perception, or both.”
Race, Behavior, and The Brain: The Role of Neuroimaging in Understanding Complex Social Behaviors (2003, background): “Previous studies have found the FFA to be primarily localized in the right hemisphere (e.g., Kanwisher, 2000).”
Neural correlates of rapid reversal learning in a simple model of human social interaction (2003, result): “…in the reversal and control tasks are consistent with other studies implicating these areas in face perception and attention (Haxby et al., 1994; Kanwisher, 2000), and provide evidence that the subjects were attending to the faces, which was also reflected by their one-trial reversal behaviour…”
The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition. (2001, methodology): “, & Kanwisher, N. G. (1998). Binocular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex. Neuron, 21, 753–759. Tong, F., Nakayama, N., Moscovitch, M., Weinrib, O., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Response properties of the human fusiform face area. Cogniti e Neuropsychology, 257–280. Tootell, R. B.,”