What makes faces special?

被引:64
作者
Yue, Xiaomin [1 ]
Tjan, Bosco S. [1 ]
Biederman, Irving [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ So Calif, Dept Psychol, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
关键词
face recognition; fusiform face area; fMRI adaptation; face vs. object recognition; spatial representation; face representation;
D O I
10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.017
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
What may be special about faces, compared to non-face objects, is that their neural representation may be fundamentally spatial, e.g., Gabor-like. Subjects matched a sequence of two filtered images, each containing every other combination of spatial frequency and orientation, of faces or non-face 3D blobs, judging whether the person or blob was the same or different. On a match trial, the images were either identical or complementary (containing the remaining spatial frequency and orientation content). Relative to an identical pair of images, a complementary pair of faces, but not blobs, reduced matching accuracy and released fMRI adaptation in the fusiform face area. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:3802 / 3811
页数:10
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