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SUBMITTER: Landi SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5612776 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170801 6351
Familiarity alters face recognition: Familiar faces are recognized more accurately than unfamiliar ones and under difficult viewing conditions when unfamiliar face recognition fails. The neural basis for this fundamental difference remains unknown. Using whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging, we found that personally familiar faces engage the macaque face-processing network more than unfamiliar faces. Familiar faces also recruited two hitherto unknown face areas at anatomically conse ...[more]