Here, we review the literature on a region of the human brain that appears to play a key role in face perception, known as the fusiform face area (FFA). Section 1 outlines the theoretical background for much of this work. The face-specificity hypothesis falls squarely on one side of a longstanding debate in the fields of cognitive science and ...

The fusiform face area (FFA) is a part of the brain located in the fusiform gyrus with a debated purpose. Some researchers believe that the FFA is evolutionary purposed for face perception. Others believe that the FFA discriminates between any familiar stimuli.

Homogeneous categories activated the FFA more than familiar objects. Moreover, the right FFA and OFA showed significant expertise effects. An independent behavioral test of expertise predicted...

The fusiform face area (FFA) is one of several areas in occipito-temporal cortex whose activity is correlated with perceptual expertise for objects. Here, we investigate the robustness of expertise effects in FFA and other areas to a strong task ...

2019年9月1日 · Psychologists have debated whether the right fusiform face area’s (FFA) responses are domain specific to faces, or domain general for certain object categories that we have visual expertise with.

2003年7月1日 · Neuroimaging (PET and fMRI) studies have identified a set of brain areas responding more to faces than to other object categories in the visual extrastriate cortex of humans. This network includes the middle lateral fusiform gyrus (the fusiform face area, or FFA) as well as the inferior occipital gyrus (occipital face area, OFA).

2004年4月11日 · Our data show that the activation in both the right and left FFA was significantly higher for face detection hits than misses (right: P < 10 −5; left: P < 10 −4; t-test), as well as for face...

2021年9月1日 · In our fMRI study, we hypothesized that the right FFA responds selectively to the ‘holistic’ mode of diagnostic processing and less so to the ‘search-to-find’ mode.

Partial correlation analyses reveal that, removing the influence of right FFA, left FFA activity significantly correlates with the face feature measure for both nonfaces and the whole stimulus set. By contrast, when the influence of left FFA is removed, right FFA activity does not correlate with the face feature measure.

Face identity specially engages the right FFA as the right, but not the left, FFA increases to a face pair that varies in identity [Rotshtein et al.,2004]. From the evolutionary point of view, the processes of self‐face information are important for detection of kin that is critical for survival when living in social groups [Hamilton, 1964 ...