Object and face recognition The neural basis of Object and face recognition
Ventral pathway receptive field properties 2 TE receptive field V4 receptive field V1 receptive field
Responses of IT neurons to various stimuli Firing rate Stimulus
Neural Coding
The question of specificity: Is a face cell truly a “face specific” #1 #10 #100
Face selectivity in single units human MTL (Jennifer Aniston cell)
Face selectivity in single units human MTL
Face neuron clusters in IT
Responses of IT (TE) neurons
Tanaka’s stimulus reduction method
Tanaka et al, 1991
Tanaka Features
Columns in IT
Optical imaging in IT cortex
Columns in IT (seen with optical imaging)
Columns in IT
Microstimulation of face populations in IT
Cortical Microstimulation biases perceptual decisions
fMRI
The human visual pathways
Object-Selective Regions in the Human Brain Lateral Occipital Complex: LOC > lateral view 10-4 10-10 10-4 left hemisphere right hemisphere 10-10 10-4 ventral view Malach et al., PNAS 1995
Cue-independent representations Objects from motion Left hemisphere Objects from luminance lateral Objects from texture Grill-Spector et al. , Neuron 1998
Are Faces Special? Having a dedicated representation
Face-related activation
Whole vs. Parts 1 2V 4 16 64 256 2h
Whole vs. Parts
Face blindness (Prosopagnosia)
Is face blindness associated with a disfunctional FFA NO!
But it may depend on the integrity of the face network (its connections with other areas)
Functional organization of the human ventral areas Hasson et al., 2003
Distributed & overlapping representation of faces & objects in ventral temporal cortex Haxby et al., 2001
Mapping the similarity between visual categories A division between animate and inanimate objects Kriegskorte et al., 2008
Mapping is similar in humans and monkeys