Does the fusiform face area contain subregions highly selective for nonfaces? (original) (raw)

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Grill-Spector and colleagues1 used high-resolution fMRI (1 mm isotropic voxels) to argue that the fusiform face area (FFA) is composed not only of voxels highly selective for faces (as previously argued), but also of voxels that are just as selective for nonface stimuli (cars, animals and sculptures). We show here that the authors' analyses are subject to a selection bias that invalidates their claim of strong selectivity for nonfaces.

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Figure 1: Comparison of results reproduced from Grill-Spector et al. with non-independent and independent analyses of data from FFA and non-brain regions of interest.

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  1. Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Building 10, Room 4C-104, MSC1366, Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA
    Chris I Baker
  2. McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA
    Tyler L Hutchison & Nancy Kanwisher

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Baker, C., Hutchison, T. & Kanwisher, N. Does the fusiform face area contain subregions highly selective for nonfaces?.Nat Neurosci 10, 3–4 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0107-3

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