Individuating Faces and Common Objects Produces Equal Responses in Putative Face Processing Areas in the Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex

Controversy surrounds the proposal that specific human cortical regions in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex, commonly called the fusiform face area (FFA) and occipital face area (OFA), are specialized for face processing. Here, we present findings from a fMRI study of identity discrimination of f...

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Main Authors: Frank Haist, Kang Lee, Joan Stiles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00181/full