Candidate examples of systems that might be strongly localizable include color vision (in V4), visual motion detection (in MT), and visual face recognition (in lateral fusiform gyrus).
In the auditory modality, von Kriegstein et al. (2006) demonstrated that familiar voice and face recognition activate the right anterior fusiform, and Thierry and Price (2006) associated the same right anterior fusiform region with amodal conceptual processing of both object sounds and action videos.
However, the fusiform area for face recognition (21) and the left-hemispheric temporal lobe cortices for processing speech stimuli (22) function already in the newborn.
This pattern of results seems to suggest the aIT is important for face recognition and a partial breakdown in the communication between the fusiform gyrus and the aIT may be a plausible source of face individuation deficits.
A significant reduction in cortical thickness was noticed in the left fusiform cortex, an area involved with body and face recognition [43].
(1999) found that training people to recognize Greebles recruits the fusiform face area the same area used to support face recognition, a perceptual skill that has been shown to be holistic (Young et al., 1987; Hole, 1994; Farah et al., 1998).
Face recognition is built into a specific part of our brain called the fusiform.
Some studies have suggested that the fusiform face area mediates the lower order processing of simple face recognition [ 72], while others have implicated it in higher order processing of faces at a specific level [ 45] including emotional detection [ 73] and identity discrimination [ 58, 64].
Whenever pictures of Bainbridge's family flashed on the screen, an area of her brain called the fusiform gyrus, which neuroscientists had identified as playing a central role in face recognition, lit up on the scan.
First indications of neuroanatomical differences point to a volumetric reduction of the anterior fusiform gyrus [67], a region involved in more associative and mnestic aspects of face recognition, and a reduced structural connectivity in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex [68], a region involved in more apperceptive aspects of face recognition.
