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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 1402-1411Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl053
Keywords
adaptation; face; fMRI; viewpoint; visual cortex
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR 008079] Funding Source: Medline
- NEI NIH HHS [R01 EY 015261-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Two functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) face viewpoint adaptation experiments were conducted to investigate whether MRI adaptation in high-level visual cortex depends on the duration of adaptation and how different views of a face are represented in the human visual system. We found adaptation effects in multiple face-selective areas, which suggest a distributed, viewer-centered representation of faces in the human visual system. However, the nature of the adaptation effects was dependent on the length of adaptation. With long adaptation durations, face-selective areas along the hierarchy of the visual system gradually exhibited viewpoint-tuned adaptation. As the angular difference between the adapter and test stimulus increased, the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signal evoked by the test stimulus gradually increased as a function of the amount of 3-dimensional (3D) rotation. With short adaptation durations, however, face-selective areas in the ventral pathway, including the lateral occipital cortex and right fusiform area, exhibited viewpoint-sensitive adaptation. These areas showed an increase in the BOLD signal with a 3D rotation, but this signal increase was independent of the amount of rotation. Further, the right superior temporal sulcus showed little or very weak viewpoint adaptation with short adaptation durations. Our findings suggest that long- and short-term fMRI adaptations may reflect selective properties of different neuronal mechanisms.
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