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NEUROREPORT
Volume 11, Issue 2, Pages 337-341Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200002070-00023
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face-selective M170; face perception; magnetoencephalography
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- PHS HHS [56037] Funding Source: Medline
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Evidence from fMRI, ERPs and intracranial recordings suggests the existence of face-specific mechanisms in the primate occipitotemporal cortex. The present study used a 64-channel MEG system to monitor neural activity while normal subjects viewed a sequence of grayscale photographs of a variety of unfamiliar faces and non-face stimuli. In 14 of 15 subjects, face stimuli evoked a larger response than non-face stimuli at a latency of 160 ms after stimulus onset at bilateral occipitotemporal sensors. Inverted face stimuli elicited responses that were no different in amplitude but 13 ms later in latency than upright faces. The profile of this M170 response across stimulus conditions is largely consistent with prior results using scalp and subdural ERPs. NeuroReport 11:337-341 (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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