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These neurons also fired more frequently than the ones responding to faces, hands, or shapes.
However, existing fMRI studies have not found consistent abnormalities in the fusiform gyrus when responding to faces in the relatively few developmental prosopagnosics studied to date (e.g. Hasson et al., 2003; Avidan et al., 2005; but see Bentin et al., 2007; Williams et al., 2007).
In area TE, there are neurons specifically responding to faces and hands in addition to those responding to visual features that are less complex than object images (Gross et al. 1972; Desimone et al. 1984; Perrett et al. 1984; Tanaka et al. 1991; Kobatake and Tanaka 1994).
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The group of neurons that responds to all faces receives the largest weighting factors, followed by the less general neurons, responding to face category 1&2 (famous), 1&3 (female) or 2&4 (male), followed by the group of neurons that are specific to an individual face.
"We are hard-wired to respond to faces," she said.
(We're hard-wired to respond to faces).
"Cell after cell responded to faces but not at all to other objects".
However, in a specific region of the anterior part of the inferotemporal cortex (near the end of the ventral stream) are neurons that respond to faces and very little else.
The idea of getting computers to respond to faces has existed for decades.
Pictures of human faces shown to patients, for example, activate an area of the cortex known to respond to faces in normally sighted people.
This fits with the team's finding that, compared to primates, sheep have a larger percentage of neurons that respond to faces regardless of viewing angle.
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