Patches with Links: a Unified System for Processing Faces in the Macaque Temporal Lobe

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Journal Science

Specialty Science

Date 2008 Jun 7

PMID 18535247

Citations 218

Authors

Sebastian Moeller

Winrich A Freiwald

Doris Y Tsao

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Abstract

The brain processes objects through a series of regions along the ventral visual pathway, but the circuitry subserving the analysis of specific complex forms remains unknown. One complex form category, faces, selectively activates six patches of cortex in the macaque ventral pathway. To identify the connectivity of these face patches, we used electrical microstimulation combined with simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging. Stimulation of each of four targeted face patches produced strong activation, specifically within a subset of the other face patches. Stimulation outside the face patches produced an activation pattern that spared the face patches. These results suggest that the face patches form a strongly and specifically interconnected hierarchical network.

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