Spatiotemporal hierarchies of face representation in the human ventral temporal cortex
Sina Salehi, Mohammad Reza A. Dehaqani, Jessica Schrouff, Clara Sava-Segal, Omri Raccah, Sori Baek · 2024
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Description
Salehi and co-authors record brain activity as patients view faces from several species and other control images. Electrodes placed inside the skull capture signals from a face sensitive region at the base of the brain. Their 2024 study asks how face types are sorted in space and time.
Response patterns matched across face areas, not just within one face type but across types too. As faces moved from human to mammal, bird, and marine kinds, pattern match fell and response start times grew later. Basic splits, such as human versus non-human, arose earlier than broad splits like living versus non-living. The authors read this as a gradient from human faces toward non-face images.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sina Salehi, Mohammad Reza A. Dehaqani, Jessica Schrouff, Clara Sava-Segal, Omri Raccah, Sori Baek |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 67 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |