Probabilistic and Single-Subject Retinotopic Maps Reveal the Topographic Organization of Face Patches in the Macaque Cortex

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 34; no. 31; pp. 10156 - 10167
• Main Authors: Janssens, T., Zhu, Q., Popivanov, I. D., Vanduffel, W.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 30.07.2014
• Subjects: Animals; Brain Mapping; Cerebral Cortex - blood supply; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Face; Female; Functional Laterality; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Macaca; Macaca mulatta; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Oxygen - blood; Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Visual Pathways - blood supply; Visual Pathways - physiology

Face perception is crucial to survival among social primates. It has been suggested that a group of extrastriate cortical regions responding more strongly to faces than to nonface objects is critical for face processing in primates. It is generally assumed that these regions are not retinotopically...