Anterior temporal face patches: A meta-analysis and empirical study

Studies of nonhuman primates have reported face sensitive patches in the ventral anterior temporal lobes (ATL). In humans, ATL resection or damage causes an associative prosopagnosia in which face perception is intact but face memory is compromised. Some fMRI studies have extended these findings usi...

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Main Authors: Rebecca J. Von Der Heide, Laura M. Skipper, Ingrid R. Olson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00017/full