Does visual subordinate - level categorization engage the functionally defined
fusiform face area?.
The part of the brain that lit up with activity during those moments of pareidolia was the right
fusiform face area, known to be responsible for facial recognition.
They found that in 17 of the 19 participants
the fusiform face area, the brain's face - recognition region, was turned on most strongly when they saw somebody of their own color, indicating that it responds to certain kinds of faces with greater acuity.
Brain scans revealed activity in
the fusiform face area, responsible for recognising real faces, they report in «Seeing Jesus in Toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia» (doi.org/vn8).
Indeed, functional brain imaging has identified a set of adjacent regions, referred to as
the fusiform face area (FFA), that are situated on the left and the right sides of the brain, at the bottom of the temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex.
Not exact matches
People who are born
face - blind, on the other hand, typically have a normal facial
fusiform area.
She and her colleagues found that people born
face - blind have a smaller - than - normal bundle of nerve fibers linking the facial
fusiform area to other regions toward the front of the brain.
Damage to the
fusiform gyrus of the temporal lobe, for example, causes
face blindness, and stimulation of this same
area causes people to see
faces spontaneously.
A network of occipito - temporal
face - sensitive
areas besides the right middle
fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal
face processing
Seen gaze - direction modulates
fusiform activity and its coupling with other brain
areas during
face processing