Intracerebral Electrophysiological Recordings to Understand the Neural Basis of Human Face Recognition.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how the human brain recognizes faces is a primary scientific goal in cognitive neuroscience. Given the limitations of the monkey model of human face recognition, a key approach in this endeavor is the recording of electrophysiological activity with electrodes implanted inside the brain of human epileptic patients. However, this approach faces a number of challenges that must be overcome for meaningful scientific knowledge to emerge. Here we synthesize a 10 year research program combining the recording of intracerebral activity (StereoElectroEncephaloGraphy, SEEG) in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) of large samples of participants and fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS), to objectively define, quantify, and characterize the neural basis of human face recognitio

SUBMITTER: Rossion B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9954066 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature