Journal
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 17, Issue 11, Pages 2713-2724Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl180
Keywords
attention; DCM; dMRI; human; occipitotemporal cortex; repetition
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- Medical Research Council [G0500784] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0500784] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0500784] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust [066097] Funding Source: Medline
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We tested for differential brain response to distinct spatial frequency (SF) components in faces. During a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, participants were presented with hybrid faces containing superimposed low and high SF information from different identities. We used a repetition paradigm where faces at either SF range were independently repeated or changed across consecutive trials. In addition, we manipulated which SF band was attended. Our results suggest that repetition and attention affected partly overlapping occipitotemporal regions but did not interact. Changes of high SF faces increased responses of the right inferior occipital gyrus (IOG) and left inferior temporal gyrus (ITG), with the latter response being also modulated additively by attention. In contrast, the bilateral middle occipital gyrus (MOG) responded to repetition and attention manipulations of low SF. A common effect of high and low SF repetition was observed in the right fusiform gyrus (FFG). Follow-up connectivity analyses suggested direct influence of the MOG (low SF), IOG, and ITG (high SF) on the FFG responses. Our results reveal that different regions within occipitotemporal cortex extract distinct visual cues at different SF ranges in faces and that the outputs from these separate processes project forward to the right FFG, where the different visual cues may converge.
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