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SCIENCE
Volume 320, Issue 5881, Pages 1355-1359Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1157436
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Funding Source: Medline
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The brain processes objects through a series of regions along the ventral visual pathway, but the circuitry subserving the analysis of specific complex forms remains unknown. One complex form category, faces, selectively activates six patches of cortex in the macaque ventral pathway. To identify the connectivity of these face patches, we used electrical microstimulation combined with simultaneous functional magnetic resonance imaging. Stimulation of each of four targeted face patches produced strong activation, specifically within a subset of the other face patches. Stimulation outside the face patches produced an activation pattern that spared the face patches. These results suggest that the face patches form a strongly and specifically interconnected hierarchical network.
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