Parafoveal vision reveals qualitative differences between fusiform face area and parahippocampal place area.

ABSTRACT: The center-periphery visual field axis guides early visual system organization with enhanced resources devoted to central vision leading to reduced peripheral performance relative to that of central vision (i.e., behavioral eccentricity effect) for many visual functions. The center-periphery organization extends to high-order visual cortex where, for example, the well-studied face-sensitive fusiform face area (FFA) shows sensitivity to central vision and the place-sensitive parahippocampal place area (PPA) shows sensitivity to peripheral vision. As we have recently found that face perception is more sensitive to eccentricity than place perception, here we examined whether these behavioral findings reflect differences in FFA's and PPA's sensitivities to eccentricity. We assumed FFA would sh

SUBMITTER: Kreichman O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879909 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature