Galit Yovel

..Taken together, our data suggest that among the face-selective and object-selective regions, the FFA is a primary neural source of the behavioral FIE...

..These results may be consistent with the idea that faces are special, in that they are processed as nondecomposable wholes...

..We conclude that the FFA asymmetry is a highly stable individual characteristic that underlies the well-established left-visual-field superiority for face recognition...

..Lastly, because early stimulation (60-100 ms) affected selectivity of a later ERP component (150-200 ms), the results could imply a feed-forward connection between occipital and temporal category-selective areas...

..These results suggest a critical role for the head in the processing of human bodies...

..The similar sensitivity of the OFA to upright and inverted faces is consistent with the hypothesis that the OFA processes facial features at an early stage of face processing...

..These findings further suggest that the FIE can be generated by a contextually induced face percept at the face detection stage rather than the face identification stage...

..Our results support the notion of gradual emergence of view-invariant representation with invariance for mirror-symmetric images as an intermediate step and propose putative neural correlates of mirror-image confusion in the human brain...

..Taken together, these findings correspond with the hypothesis that inversion of the face leads to recruitment of additional mechanisms as early as at the N170 time-window...

..These results indicate that to better understand real-life face recognition both external and internal features should be included...

..Future studies will determine whether this interaction is specific to faces or may be found for other object categories in category-selective areas...

..Despite the very different time-scale of the fMRI and EEG signals, our data show that a correlation analysis across subjects may be informative with respect to the latency in which different brain regions process information...

..We conclude that intact discrimination of body posture relies heavily on the head position. Our findings also imply that the BIE and the face inversion effect may be generated by different mechanisms...

..In summary, our data clearly support face-specific holistic hypothesis by showing that face perception mechanisms extract both part and spacing information...

..We assumed that the FG in schizophrenia will show reduced repetition related sensitivity to transfigured-bizarre faces, while having overall normal response to faces...

..More broadly, our findings imply that distance information is inherent to object recognition...

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..Thus, recognizing faces under varying viewing conditions may only require similarity evaluations within--rather than across--different transformations...

..These findings together with other data that are discussed are consistent with the idea that the shape of facial features and the spacing among them are integrated rather than dissociated in the holistic representation of faces...

..These findings indicate that face perception mechanisms are not process specific for parts or configuration but are domain specific for face stimuli per se...

..Subjects exposed to the new protocol replaced a prelearned face with an entirely different face within just 3 days, significantly faster than in previous reports...

..It is therefore the quality--not the quantity--of exposure that determines recognition abilities...

..We show that, despite the notion that skin colour plays a major role in categorising faces into own and other-race faces, its effect on face recognition is minor relative to differences across races in facial features...

..Accuracy dropped when pulses were delivered at 60 and 100 ms only. These findings indicate that the rOFA processes face-part information at an early stage in the face-processing stream...

..These similarities between electrophysiological correlates of pure familiarity and recollection suggest that familiarity with faces may arise by virtue of a subset of the neural processing responsible for recollection...

..However, asymmetric encoding strategies are different for attended and unattended syllables...

..Similar inversion effects for face part and spacing for both groups suggest that they are using the same holistic face processing mechanism...

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