| The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area (2006) | |||||||||
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| Neuropsychologia The fusiform face area not sufficient for face recognition Evidence from patient with dense prosopagnosia and occipital face area Jennifer Steeves Jody Culham Bradley Duchaine Cristiana Cavina Pratesi Kenneth Valyear Igor Schindler Keith Humphrey David Milner Melvyn Goodale Department Psychology The University Western Ontario London Ont Canada Vision Sciences Laboratory Department Psychology Harvard University Cambridge USA Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit University Durham Durham Received February received revised form June accepted June Available online August Abstract tested functional activation for faces patient who following acquired brain damage has profound deficit object recognition based form visual form agnosia and also prosopagnosia that undocumented date Functional imaging demonstrated that like our control observers shows significantly more activation when passively viewing face compared scene images area that consistent with the fusiform face area FFA Control observers also show occipital face area OFA activation however whereas lesions appear overlap the OFA bilaterally asked given that shows FFA activation for faces what extent she able recognize faces demonstrated severe impairment higher level face processing she could not recognize face identity gender emotional expression contrast she performed relatively normally many face categorization tasks can differentiate faces from non faces given sufficient texture information and processing | |||||||||
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