Single neuron responses underlying face recognition in the human midfusiform face-selective cortex.

ABSTRACT: Faces are critical for social interactions and their recognition constitutes one of the most important and challenging functions of the human brain. While neurons responding selectively to faces have been recorded for decades in the monkey brain, face-selective neural activations have been reported with neuroimaging primarily in the human midfusiform gyrus. Yet, the cellular mechanisms producing selective responses to faces in this hominoid neuroanatomical structure remain unknown. Here we report single neuron recordings performed in 5 human subjects (1 male, 4 females) implanted with intracerebral microelectrodes in the face-selective midfusiform gyrus, while they viewed pictures of familiar and unknown faces and places. We observed similar responses to faces and places at the single cell

SUBMITTER: Quian Quiroga R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10499913 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature