Joint encoding of facial identity, orientation, gaze, and expression in the middle dorsal face area.

ABSTRACT: The last two decades have established that a network of face-selective areas in the temporal lobe of macaque monkeys supports the visual processing of faces. Each area within the network contains a large fraction of face-selective cells. And each area encodes facial identity and head orientation differently. A recent brain-imaging study discovered an area outside of this network selective for naturalistic facial motion, the middle dorsal (MD) face area. This finding offers the opportunity to determine whether coding principles revealed inside the core network would generalize to face areas outside the core network. We investigated the encoding of static faces and objects, facial identity, and head orientation, dimensions which had been studied in multiple areas of the core face-processing

SUBMITTER: Yang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379987 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature