Face Patch Resting State Networks Link Face Processing to Social Cognition.

ABSTRACT: Faces transmit a wealth of social information. How this information is exchanged between face-processing centers and brain areas supporting social cognition remains largely unclear. Here we identify these routes using resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging in macaque monkeys. We find that face areas functionally connect to specific regions within frontal, temporal, and parietal cortices, as well as subcortical structures supporting emotive, mnemonic, and cognitive functions. This establishes the existence of an extended face-recognition system in the macaque. Furthermore, the face patch resting state networks and the default mode network in monkeys show a pattern of overlap akin to that between the social brain and the default mode network in humans: this overlap specifically

SUBMITTER: Schwiedrzik CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4562659 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature