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Doris Y. Tsao | Zendy; Sebastian Moeller | Zendy; Winrich A. Freiwald | Zendy

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Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans

Author(s) -

Doris Y. Tsao,

Sebastian Moeller,

Winrich A. Freiwald

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.0809662105

Subject(s) - macaque , superior temporal sulcus , primate , fusiform face area , face (sociological concept) , neuroscience , macaca nemestrina , face perception , temporal lobe , fusiform gyrus , psychology , biology , anatomy , perception , functional magnetic resonance imaging , social science , sociology , epilepsy

Face recognition is of central importance for primate social behavior. In both humans and macaques, the visual analysis of faces is supported by a set of specialized face areas. The precise organization of these areas and the correspondence between individual macaque and human face-selective areas are debated. Here, we examined the organization of face-selective regions across the temporal lobe in a large number of macaque and human subjects. Macaques showed 6 regions of face-selective cortex arranged in a stereotypical pattern along the temporal lobe. Human subjects showed, in addition to 3 reported face areas (the occipital, fusiform, and superior temporal sulcus face areas), a face-selective area located anterior to the fusiform face area, in the anterior collateral sulcus. These results suggest a closer anatomical correspondence between macaque and human face-processing systems than previously realized.

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