PSY 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Superior Temporal Sulcus, Fusiform Face Area, Fusiform Gyrus
11 Oct 2017
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Prosopagnosia and face processing: visual deficit to face recognition. Majority of patients with prosopagnosia have bilateral lesions (occipital lobe: neurons in superior temporal sulcus (sts) of monkeys show preferential responses for faces (even human) Objects recognition: parts and wholes: analytic vs. holistic, holistic=faces and objects, analytic= objects and words. Brain areas involved in recognition: fusiform face area (ffa, occipital face area (ofa, parahippocampal face area (pfa, extrastriate body area (eba, fusiform body area (fba) Rational for the bird/car study: ffa may not just be about faces. In the right ffa: the bird experts have more expertise than car experts: group effect: bird experts >car experts (bird experts have more activation in general, ffa was enhanced when.
