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ANNUAL REVIEW OF NEUROSCIENCE, VOL 39
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages 325-346Publisher
ANNUAL REVIEWS
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-070815-013934
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face recognition; functional brain organization; neural mechanisms of behavior; social brain function
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- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [R01EY021594] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH105397] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY021594] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH105397] Funding Source: Medline
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Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided into a ventral stream and a dorsal stream, and the functional similarities of the areas in humans and macaques indicate they are homologous. Neural correlates for face detection, holistic processing, face space, and other key properties of human face processing have been identified at the single neuron level, and studies providing causal evidence have established firmly that face-selective brain areas are central to face processing. These mechanisms give rise to our highly accurate familiar face recognition but also to our error-prone performance with unfamiliar faces. This limitation of the face system has important implications for consequential situations such as eyewitness identification and policing.
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