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Differential Sensitivity of Human Visual Cortex to Faces, Letterstrings, and Textures: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study
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Twelve normal subjects viewed alternating sequences of unfamiliar faces, unpronounceable nonword letterstrings, and textures while echoplanar functional magnetic resonance images were acquired in seven slices extending from the posterior margin of the splenium to near the occipital pole. These stimuli were chosen to elicit initial category-specific processing in extrastriate cortex while minimizing semantic processing. Overall, faces evoked more activation than did letterstrings. Comparing hemispheres, faces evoked greater activation in the right than the left hemisphere, whereas letterstrings evoked greater activation in the left than the right hemisphere. Faces primarily activated the fusiform gyrus bilaterally, and also activated the right occipitotemporal and inferior occipital sulci and a region of lateral cortex centered in the middle temporal gyrus. Letterstrings primarily activated the left occipitotemporal and inferior occipital sulci. Textures primarily activated portions of the collateral sulcus. In the left hemisphere, 9 of the 12 subjects showed a characteristic pattern in which faces activated a discrete region of the lateral fusiform gyrus, whereas letterstrings activated a nearby region of cortex within the occipitotemporal and inferior occipital sulci. These results suggest that different regions of ventral extrastriate cortex are specialized for processing the perceptual features of faces and letterstrings, and that these regions are intermediate between earlier processing in striate and peristriate cortex, and later lexical, semantic, and associative processing in downstream cortical regions.
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“Puce et al. (1996) report single-subject activations during passive presentation of visual words, faces, and textures. Nine out of twelve subjects showed greater activation to words than to faces in the left occipitotemporal sulcus, although a neighboring but slightly more mesial site conversely showed preferential activation to faces than to words.”
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“The region that activates to visual words is well delimited and occupies a fixed location relative to other regions that preferentially respond to faces, houses, or objects (Hasson et al., 2002, 2003; Puce et al., 1996).”
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Face and Word Recognition Can Be Selectively Affected by Brain Injury or Developmental Disorders
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BackgroundInfluentialThe Mid‐Fusiform Sulcus (sulcus sagittalis gyri fusiformis)
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“…five decades (Mickle, 1897; Vogt 1904; Connolly, 1950; Bailey and von Bonin, 1951) until reappearing in the cognitive neuroscience literature 100 years after his original observation (Puce et al., 1996; Nobre et al., 1998; Allison et al., 1999; see Weiner and Zilles, 2016 for an extensive review).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialInterhemispheric interaction during the menstrual cycle
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“Some clues as to the functional significance of greater right EBA and FBA engagement may be derived from face-perception studies, which have described right hemisphere dominance in the FFA response to faces (Kanwisher, McDermott,CMcCarthy,Puce,Gore,A Puce, Allison, Asgari, Gore, & McCarthy, 1996 ).,... types of stimul…”
BackgroundCrinkling and crumpling: An auditory fMRI study of material properties
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Reading acquisition enhances an early visual process of contour integration
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“, socially important data regarding faces and, in humans, language (12,26,27)) and reciprocally modulate upstream visual processing areas via back-projections.”
BackgroundRecognition memory for faces in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives
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“In general, a dominance of the right temporal cortex in the recognition of faces has been supported by studies in adults using fMRI [3,4] and prosopagnosia [11].”
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Comparative connectomics of the primate social brain
Yokoyama, C., Autio, J. A., Ikeda, T., Sallet, J., Mars, R. B., Essen, D. C. V., Glasser, M. F., Sadato, N., & Hayashi, T. (2021) · NeuroImage · doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118693 · Cited by 44
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“This sensitivity is consistent with the sometimes reported predominance of right hemisphere engagement in face processing (Puce et al., 1996; Wicker et al., 1998; Le Grand et al., 2003; Rossion et al., 2003a) and emotion recognition (Moreno et al.”
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“To test our hypotheses concerning the contribution of different lateral and ventral occipito-temporal sources to the generation of the ERF components on a coarse spatial scale, we selected four large cortical regions on basis of our a priori hypothesis: the full lateral aspect of the occipital lobe (LOC, which include…”
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“…exhibits hemispheric specialisations, most notably a left-hemisphere bias for word recognition and a right-hemisphere bias for face and object recognition (Cohen & Dehaene, 2004; Hasson, Levy, Behrmann, Hendler, & Malach, 2002; Puce, Allison, Asgari, Gore, & McCarthy, 1996; Thierry & Price, 2006).”
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“The left middle temporal gyrus, which is a multimodal association area, has been previously implicated in face perception [2,39].”
BackgroundDifferent processes are involved in human brain for shape and face comparisons
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“…of tasks involving attention to shape (Corbetta et al., 1990), and tasks associated with objects (Kosslyn et al., 1994; Schacter et al., 1995), faces (Haxby et al., 1991; Horwitz et al., 1992; Puce et al., 1995), and textures (Malach et al., 1995; Roland & Gulyas, 1995; Puce et al., 1996).”
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Brain responses differ to faces of mothers and fathers
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“Although face recognition has been extensively studied and numerous reports show that faces elicit the classic pattern of activity that includes the fusiform gyri (Haxby et al., 2000; McCarthy et al., 1997; Puce et al., 1996), neuroimaging studies have mostly examined recently learned and celebrity faces (Elfgren et a…”
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The Effects of Face Inversion and Face Race on the P100 ERP
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Contrastive learning explains the emergence and function of visual category-selective regions
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Who is who: areas of the brain associated with recognizing and naming famous faces
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The genetic and neuroanatomical basis of social dysfunction: Lessons from neurofibromatosis type 1
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“This was surprising given the pSTS region’s reported preference for face stimuli (Puce et al., 1996) and special preference for eyes (Hoffman and Haxby, 2000).”
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Evolution of reading and face circuits during the first three years of reading acquisition
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Metadata
- Authors
- Puce, A., Allison, T., Asgari, M., Gore, J. C., & McCarthy, G.
- Affiliations
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs (US)
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 1996-08-15
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 16
- Pages
- 5205-5215
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6579313
- OpenAlex
- W2172253232
- Cited by
- 987
- References
- 50
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- FWCI
- 16.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH-05 286, R01MH005286)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- face processing, texture processing, fusiform gyrus, extrastriate cortex, hemispheric lateralization, right hemisphere, collateral sulcus, middle temporal gyrus, ventral stream
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Mapping, Face, Female, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Visual Cortex, Visual Pathways
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