ArticleProgress in neurobiology2020
What does a "face cell" want?'
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- Face pareidolia minimally engages macaque face selective neurons.Progress in neurobiology · 2025Article
- Face cells encode object parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- A behavioral advantage for the face pareidolia illusion in peripheral vision.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Inactivation of face-selective neurons alters eye movements when free viewing faces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Distinct patterns of neural response to faces from different races in humans and deep networks.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Preliminary evidence of an increased susceptibility to face pareidolia in postpartum women.Biology letters · 2023Article
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- The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- A shared mechanism for facial expression in human faces and face pareidolia.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Piecing together the orbitofrontal puzzle.Behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the 1970s Charlie Gross was among the first to identify neurons that respond selectively to faces, in the macaque inferior temporal (IT) cortex. This seminal finding has been followed by numerous studies quantifying the visual features that trigger a response from face cells in order to answer the question; what do face cells want? However, the connection between face-selective activity in IT cortex and visual perception remains only partially understood. Here we present fMRI results in the macaque showing that some face patches respond to illusory facial features in objects. We argue that to fully understand the functional role of face cells, we need to develop approaches that test the extent to which their response explains what we see.
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