Individual faces elicit distinct response patterns in human anterior temporal cortex
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPublished 11 December 2007Open access
Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Elia Formisano, Bettina Sorger, Rainer Goebel
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Abstract
Visual face identification requires distinguishing between thousands of faces we know. This computational feat involves a network of brain regions including the fusiform face area (FFA) and anterior inferotemporal cortex (aIT), whose roles in the process are not well understood. Here, we provide the first demonstration that it is possible to discriminate cortical response patterns elicited by individual face images with high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Response patterns elicited by the face images were distinct in aIT but not in the FFA. Individual-level face information is likely to be present in both regions, but our data suggest that it is more pronounced in aIT. One interpretation is that the FFA detects faces and engages aIT for identification.
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