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Trial reportPloS one2019

Properties of face localizer activations and their application in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) fingerprinting.

Lena Schwarz, Benjamin Kreifelts, Dirk Wildgruber, Michael Erb, Klaus Scheffler, Thomas Ethofer

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Trial report in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Perception and Memory Reinstatement Engage Overlapping Face-Selective Regions within Human Ventral Temporal Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lena SchwarzUniversity Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3769-2437
Benjamin KreifeltsUniversity Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Dirk WildgruberUniversity Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Michael ErbDepartment for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Klaus SchefflerDepartment for Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Thomas EthoferUniversity Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Functional localizers are particularly prevalent in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies concerning face processing. In this study, we extend the knowledge on face localizers regarding four important aspects: First, activation differences in occipital and fusiform face areas (OFA/FFA) and amygdala are characterized by increased activation while precuneus and medial prefrontal cortex show decreased deactivation to faces versus control stimuli. The face-selective posterior superior temporal sulcus is a hybrid area exhibiting increased activation within its inferior and decreased deactivation within its superior part. Second, the employed control stimuli can impact on whether a region is classified in group analyses as face-selective or not. We specifically investigated this for recently described cytoarchitectonic subregions of the fusiform cortex (FG-2/FG-4). Averaged activity across voxels in FG-4 was stronger for faces than objects, houses, or landscapes. In FG-2, averaged activity was only significantly stronger in comparison with landscapes, but small peaks within this area were detected for comparison versus objects and houses. Third, reproducibility of individual peak activations is excellent for right FFA and quite good for right OFA, whereas within all other areas it was too low to provide valid information on time-invariant individual peaks. Finally, the fine-grained spatial activation patterns in right OFA and FFA are both time-invariant within each individual and sufficiently different between individuals to enable identification of individual participants with near-perfect precision (fMRI fingerprinting).

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FaceMagnetic Resonance ImagingAdultFemaleHumansMaleTemporal Lobe

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PMCPMC6478291

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