The functional neuroanatomy of human face perception

K Grill-Spector, KS Weiner, K Kay… - Annual review of vision …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Face perception is critical for normal social functioning and is mediated by a network of
regions in the ventral visual stream. In this review, we describe recent neuroimaging findings …

[HTML][HTML] The anterior fusiform gyrus: The ghost in the cortical face machine

B Rossion, C Jacques, J Jonas - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Face-selective regions in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) have been
defined for decades mainly with functional magnetic resonance imaging. This face-selective …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing associative plasticity in temporo-occipital back-projections improves visual perception of emotions

S Borgomaneri, M Zanon, P Di Luzio… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) is a critical node in a network specialized for
perceiving emotional facial expressions that is reciprocally connected with early visual …

Extensive childhood experience with Pokémon suggests eccentricity drives organization of visual cortex

J Gomez, M Barnett, K Grill-Spector - Nature human behaviour, 2019 - nature.com
The functional organization of human high-level visual cortex, such as the face-and place-
selective regions, is strikingly consistent across individuals. An unanswered question in …

[HTML][HTML] A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children

X Feng, I Altarelli, K Monzalvo, G Ding, F Ramus… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Are the brain mechanisms of reading acquisition similar across writing systems? And do
similar brain anomalies underlie reading difficulties in alphabetic and ideographic reading …

[HTML][HTML] Anatomy and white matter connections of the fusiform gyrus

AH Palejwala, KP O'Connor, CK Milton, C Anderson… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The fusiform gyrus is understood to be involved in the processing of high-order visual
information, particularly related to faces, bodies, and stimuli characterized by high spatial …

A probabilistic functional atlas of human occipito-temporal visual cortex

M Rosenke, R Van Hoof, J Van Den Hurk… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Human visual cortex contains many retinotopic and category-specific regions. These brain
regions have been the focus of a large body of functional magnetic resonance imaging …

Multimodal mapping of the face connectome

Y Wang, A Metoki, DV Smith, JD Medaglia… - Nature human …, 2020 - nature.com
Face processing supports our ability to recognize friend from foe, form tribes and understand
the emotional implications of changes in facial musculature. This skill relies on a distributed …

Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part II: Neural basis

B Rossion - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Patient PS sustained her dramatic brain injury thirty years ago, in 1992, the same year as the
first report of a neuroimaging study of human face recognition. The present paper …

[HTML][HTML] Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections

D Finzi, J Gomez, M Nordt, AA Rezai… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Face-processing occurs across ventral and lateral visual streams, which are involved in
static and dynamic face perception, respectively. However, the nature of spatial …