Investigating representations of facial identity in human ventral visual cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation

The occipital face area (OFA) is face-selective. This enhanced activation to faces could reflect either generic face and shape-related processing or high-level conceptual processing of identity. Here we examined these two possibilities using a state-dependent transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)...

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Main Authors: Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Juha Silvanto, Dietrich S Schwarzkopf, Geraint Rees
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
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OFA
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00050/full