Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans
Abstract
Face recognition is of central importance for primate social behavior. In both humans and macaques, the visual analysis of faces is supported by a set of specialized face areas. The precise organization of these areas and the correspondence between individual macaque and human face-selective areas are debated. Here, we examined the organization of face-selective regions across the temporal lobe in a large number of macaque and human subjects. Macaques showed 6 regions of face-selective cortex arranged in a stereotypical pattern along the temporal lobe. Human subjects showed, in addition to 3 reported face areas (the occipital, fusiform, and superior temporal sulcus face areas), a face-selective area located anterior to the fusiform face area, in the anterior collateral sulcus. These results suggest a closer anatomical correspondence between macaque and human face-processing systems than previously realized.
Additional Information
© 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Communicated by David H. Hubel, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, October 14, 2008 (received for review April 29, 2008. We are grateful to Nicole Schweers, Katrin Thoss, and Ramazani Hakizimana for technical support and to Guerbet for providing Sinerem. This work was supported by a Sofia Kovalevskaya award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, by German Science Foundation Grant DFG FR1437/3-1, and by German Ministry of Science Grant 01GO0506, Bremen Center for Advanced Imaging. Author contributions: D.Y.T. and W.A.F. designed research; S.M. performed research; D.Y.T. and S.M. analyzed data; and D.Y.T. and W.A.F. wrote the paper. The authors declare no conflict of interest. This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/0809662105/DCSupplemental.Attached Files
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- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- FR1437/3-1
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
- 01GO0506
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