Activation of Fusiform Face Area by Greebles Is Related to Face Similarity but Not Expertise
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Activation of Fusiform Face Area by Greebles Is Related to Face Similarity but Not Expertise
Some of the brain areas in the ventral temporal lobe, such as the fusiform face area (FFA), are critical for face perception in humans, but what determines this specialization is a matter of debate. The face specificity hypothesis claims that faces are processed in a domain-specific way. Alternatively, the expertise hypothesis states that the FFA is specialized in processing objects of expertis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0898-929X,1530-8898
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00072