期刊
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
卷 226, 期 9, 页码 3031-3049出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02350-4
关键词
Face categorization; Word categorization; Frequency-tagging; SEEG; Fusiform gyrus; Anterior temporal lobe
资金
- LUE (Lorraine Universite d'Excellence) program
- Region Grand Est
- FNRS EOS project [30991544]
The study compared face-selective and word-selective responses in patients with intracerebral electrodes, finding that the neural circuitry for faces and written words in the human brain is largely dissociated. Spatial dissociations were also observed within core regions of face and word processing, highlighting a separation between the two categories in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex.
The extent to which faces and written words share neural circuitry in the human brain is actively debated. Here, we compare face-selective and word-selective responses in a large group of patients (N = 37) implanted with intracerebral electrodes in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC). Both face-selective (i.e., significantly different responses to faces vs. non-face visual objects) and word-selective (i.e., significantly different responses to words vs. pseudofonts) neural activity is isolated with frequency-tagging. Critically, this sensitive approach allows to objectively quantify category-selective neural responses and disentangle them from general visual responses. About 70% of significant electrode contacts show either face-selectivity or word-selectivity only, with the expected right and left hemispheric dominance, respectively. Spatial dissociations are also found within core regions of face and word processing, with a medio-lateral dissociation in the fusiform gyrus (FG) and surrounding sulci, respectively. In the 30% of overlapping face- and word-selective contacts across the VOTC or in the FG and surrounding sulci, between-category-selective amplitudes (faces vs. words) show no-to-weak correlations, despite strong correlations in both the within-category-selective amplitudes (face-face, word-word) and the general visual responses to words and faces. Overall, these observations support the view that category-selective circuitry for faces and written words is largely dissociated in the human adult VOTC.
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