FMRI response to automatic and purposeful familiar-face processing in perceptual and nonperceptual cortical regions.

ABSTRACT: Viewing the faces of familiar people selectively activates a distributed network of brain regions implicated in both the perceptual and nonperceptual processing of conspecifics. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we investigate the influence of depth of famous-face processing on this network, comparing a passive incidental face processing to a task that required the extraction of identity and biographic information. We observed that the precuneus, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), anterior temporal face patch (ATFP), and the amygdala exhibit a selective response even during incidental face processing. At the same time, face selectivity was enhanced in the lateral anterior temporal lobe (latATL) and the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) when identity a

SUBMITTER: Ubaldi S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7611704 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature