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SCIENCE
Volume 311, Issue 5761, Pages 670-674Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119983
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41:RR14075] Funding Source: Medline
- NEI NIH HHS [EY13135, R01 EY016187, R01 EY016187-01A2, EY13025] Funding Source: Medline
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Face perception is a skill crucial to primates. In both humans and macaque monkeys, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) reveals a system of cortical regions that show increased blood flow when the subject views images of faces, compared with images of objects. However, the stimulus selectivity of single neurons within these fMRI-identified regions has not been studied. We used fMRI to identify and target the largest face-selective region in two macaques for single-unit recording. Almost all (97%) of the visually responsive neurons in this region were strongly face selective, indicating that a dedicated cortical area exists to support face processing in the macaque.
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