"Looks familiar, but I do not know who she is": The role of the anterior right temporal lobe in famous face recognition.

ABSTRACT: Processing a famous face involves a cascade of steps including detecting the presence of a face, recognizing it as familiar, accessing semantic/biographical information about the person, and finally, if required, production of the proper name. Decades of neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies have identified a network of occipital and temporal brain regions ostensibly comprising the 'core' system for face processing. Recent research has also begun to elucidate upon an 'extended' network, including anterior temporal and frontal regions. However, there is disagreement about which brain areas are involved in each step, as many aspects of face processing occur automatically in healthy individuals and rarely dissociate in patients. Moreover, some common phenomena are not easily induced in

SUBMITTER: Borghesani V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759326 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature