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Fast face-selective responses in prefrontal face patches of the macaque.
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- The Emergence of Topography and Hemispheric Lateralization in High-Level Vision.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2026Review
- Mesoscale functional organization of face and body areas in the macaque brain.Nature communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Face processing models propose gradually more complex receptive field properties culminating in invariant representations in anterior inferotemporal cortex (aITC), leading to late socio-emotionally relevant encoding in pre- and orbitofrontal cortex (POC). Top-down facilitation models, however, predict that some lower-level POC neurons respond faster than aITC. To resolve this discrepancy, we recorded from 2,459 neurons in fMRI-defined POC and aITC face patches. POC patches are more heterogeneous, containing smaller fractions of face-selective neurons than aITC and a mixture of responses to faces and non-faces. In one POC patch, face responses are surprisingly fast, outpacing those in aITC. Moreover, its responses correlate inversely with stimulus spatial frequency. Hence, our extensive data, with a large diversity of POC neurons, support both models and suggest one POC face patch might be specialized in fast, low-level face processing, which may enable (partially) invariant face representations during subsequent processing stages in inferotemporal cortex (ITC).
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