AFNI: software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages
Computers and Biomedical Research
Detailed Exploration of Face-related Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral Findings
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissociations of Face and Object Recognition in Developmental Prosopagnosia
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissecting Contributions of Prefrontal Cortex and Fusiform Face Area to Face Working Memory
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Face-selective Activation in a Congenital Prosopagnosic Subject
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Vase or Face? A Neural Correlate of Shape-Selective Grouping Processes in the Human Brain
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Fusiform "Face Area" is Part of a Network that Processes Faces at the Individual Level
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Electrophysiological studies of face perception in humans
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Detailed Exploration of Face-related Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral Findings
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Fusiform gyrus face selectivity relates to individual differences in facial recognition ability
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Specific regions of the human occipito-temporal cortex are consistently activated in functional imaging studies of face processing. To understand the contribution of these regions to face processing, we examined the pattern of fMRI activation in four congenital prosopagnosic (CP) individuals who are markedly impaired at face processing despite normal vision and intelligence, and with no evidence of brain damage. These individuals evinced a normal pattern of fMRI activation in the fusiform gyrus (FFA) and in other ventral occipito-temporal areas, in response to faces, buildings, and other objects, shown both as line drawings in detection and discrimination tasks and under more naturalistic testing conditions when no task was required. CP individuals also showed normal adaptation levels in a block-design adaptation experiment and, like control subjects, exhibited evidence of global face representation in the FFA. The absence of a BOLD–behavioral correlation (profound behavioral deficit, normal face-related activation in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex) challenges existing accounts of face representation, and suggests that activation in these cortical regions per se is not sufficient to ensure intact face processing.