Disentangling the Representation of Identity from Head View Along the Human Face Processing Pathway.

ABSTRACT: Neural models of a distributed system for face perception implicate a network of regions in the ventral visual stream for recognition of identity. Here, we report a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neural decoding study in humans that shows that this pathway culminates in the right inferior frontal cortex face area (rIFFA) with a representation of individual identities that has been disentangled from variable visual features in different images of the same person. At earlier stages in the pathway, processing begins in early visual cortex and the occipital face area with representations of head view that are invariant across identities, and proceeds to an intermediate level of representation in the fusiform face area in which identity is emerging but still entangled with head vi

SUBMITTER: Guntupalli JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5939212 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature