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A Cortical Region Consisting Entirely of Face-Selective Cells

Published:2006-02-03 Issue:5761 Volume:311 Page:670-674
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Tsao Doris Y.¹²³⁴⁵,Freiwald Winrich A.¹²³⁴⁵,Tootell Roger B. H.¹²³⁴⁵,Livingstone Margaret S.¹²³⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2. Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

3. Brain Research Institute, Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Bremen D28334, Bremen, FR Germany.

4. Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.

5. Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Abstract

Face perception is a skill crucial to primates. In both humans and macaque monkeys, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals a system of cortical regions that show increased blood flow when the subject views images of faces, compared with images of objects. However, the stimulus selectivity of single neurons within these fMRI-identified regions has not been studied. We used fMRI to identify and target the largest face-selective region in two macaques for single-unit recording. Almost all (97%) of the visually responsive neurons in this region were strongly face selective, indicating that a dedicated cortical area exists to support face processing in the macaque.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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