Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
2. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
3. The Nash Family Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
4. The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Abstract
What makes familiar faces so special?
Explicit semantic information in the brain is generated by gradually stripping off the specific context in which the item is embedded. A particularly striking example of such explicit representations are face-specific neurons. Landi
et al
. report the properties of neurons in a small region of the monkey anterior temporal cortex that respond to the sight of familiar faces. These cells respond to the internal features of familiar faces but not unknown faces. Some of these responses are very highly selective, reliably responding to only one face out of a vast number of other stimuli. These findings will advance our understanding about where and how semantic memories are stored in the brain. —PRS
Funder
National Institutes of Health
Simons Foundation
Society for Technical Communication
Human Frontier Science Program
Center for Brains, Minds and Machines funded by National Science Foundation STC award
National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health R01
National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health R01
National Institute Of Neurological Disorders And Stroke of the National Institutes of Health R01
The New York Stem Cell Foundation
Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research
Howard Hughes Medical Institute International
German Primate Centre Scholarship
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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