Repetition suppression to faces in the fusiform face area: A personal and dynamic journey
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I review a number of fMRI studies that investigate the effects of repeating faces on responses in the fusiform face area (FFA). These studies show that repetition suppression (RS), as well as repetition enhancement (RE), are sensitive to multiple factors, including pre-existing stimulus representations, cognitive task, lag between repetitions and spatial attention. Parallel EEG studies provide additional constraints on the timing of these repetition effects. Together, the results suggest that RS is not a unitary phenomenon, but likely subsumes multiple mechanisms that operate under different conditions. These mechanisms of course need to relate to single-cell data and known physiological mechanisms; but to make further progress, I believe we need dynamical neural network models that relate these mechanisms to the properties of neural populations that are measured by fMRI and EEG data. One example model is sketched, in which RS reflects an acceleration of neural dynamics, owing to reduced prediction error within a recurrent visual processing hierarchy.
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Attention but not awareness might be crucial for observing RS to faces in the fusiform gyrus (Henson, 2016).
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- Authors
- Henson, R. N.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Henson, Richard N.
- ORCID
- Henson, Richard N.
- Venue
- Cortex
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-07
- Volume
- 80
- Pages
- 174-184
- ISSN
- 0010-9452 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2136756960
- Cited by
- 76
- References
- 53
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Cortex (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Apollo (cc-by)
- Funders
- UK Medical Research Council (MC_US_A060_0046)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
- Keywords
- repetition suppression, repetition enhancement, fusiform face area, face processing, face recognition (cognition), spatial attention, prediction error, recurrent neural networks, neural dynamics, hierarchical visual processing, functional MRI
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Physiological, Attention, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Probability, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception
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