Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.
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SUBMITTER: Tsao DY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2614792 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
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Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.
Tsao Doris Y DY Moeller Sebastian S Freiwald Winrich A WA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081125 49
Face recognition is of central importance for primate social behavior. In both humans and macaques, the visual analysis of faces is supported by a set of specialized face areas. The precise organization of these areas and the correspondence between individual macaque and human face-selective areas are debated. Here, we examined the organization of face-selective regions across the temporal lobe in a large number of macaque and human subjects. Macaques showed 6 regions of face-selective cortex ar ...[more]
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