Anatomical correlates of face patches in macaque inferotemporal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Primate brains typically have regions within the ventral visual stream that are selectively responsive to faces. In macaques, these face patches are located in similar parts of inferotemporal cortex across individuals although correspondence with particular anatomical features has not been reported previously. Here, using high-resolution functional and anatomical imaging, we show that small "bumps," or buried gyri, along the lower bank of the superior temporal sulcus are predictive of the location of face-selective regions. Recordings from implanted multielectrode arrays verified that these bumps contain face-selective neurons. These bumps were present in monkeys raised without seeing faces and that lack face patches, indicating that these anatomical landmarks are predictive of, but not su

SUBMITTER: Arcaro MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7768718 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature