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Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition
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Expertise with unfamiliar objects ('greebles') recruits face-selective areas in the fusiform gyrus (FFA) and occipital lobe (OFA). Here we extend this finding to other homogeneous categories. Bird and car experts were tested with functional magnetic resonance imaging during tasks with faces, familiar objects, cars and birds. Homogeneous categories activated the FFA more than familiar objects. Moreover, the right FFA and OFA showed significant expertise effects. An independent behavioral test of expertise predicted relative activation in the right FFA for birds versus cars within each group. The results suggest that level of categorization and expertise, rather than superficial properties of objects, determine the specialization of the FFA.
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“However, this process may nevertheless be deployed (and, thus, the FFA activated) for the purpose of individuating members of other homogenous categories, as occurs when perceivers acquire unusual visual expertise (e.g., avid bird watchers; Gauthier et al. 2000).”
From Activity in Right Temporo-Parietal Junction is Not Selective for Theory-of-Mind (2008) · cites this paper as Gauthier et al. 2000
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“As reported by Kanwisher [2000], Gauthier et al. [2000] were able to identify an FFA in only 5 of 19 participants when using the criteria adopted by the Kanwisher group forfunctionally defining this region.”
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“These processing benefits are linked to functional reorganizations in the response properties of a region of the right fusiform gyrus [32], which are also associated with changes in the response properties of ERPs recorded within the first 200 ms of processing stimuli [33].”
From The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus (2003) · cites this paper as [32]
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- Authors
- Gauthier, I., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., & Anderson, A. W.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2000-02
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 191-197
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W2126883639
- Cited by
- 1,418
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 28.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (1r01mh056037-01)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 56037)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS 33332, R01NS033332)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- face recognition (cognition), fusiform gyrus, occipital face area, Greebles, face-selective areas, right hemisphere, object recognition
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Animals, Automobiles, Birds, Brain Mapping, Data Display, Face, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Occipital Lobe, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Professional Competence, Task Performance and Analysis, Temporal Lobe
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