Evidence for Individual Face Discrimination in Non-Face Selective Areas of the Visual Cortex in Acquired Prosopagnosia

Two areas in the human occipito-temporal cortex respond preferentially to faces: ‘the fusiform face area’ (‘FFA’) and the ‘occipital face area’ (‘OFA’). However, it is unclear whether these areas have an exclusive role in processing faces, or if sub-maximal responses in other visual areas such as th...

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Main Authors: Laurence Dricot, Bettina Sorger, Christine Schiltz, Rainer Goebel, Bruno Rossion
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/561476