Holistic face categorization in higher-level cortical visual areas of the normal and prosopagnosic brain: towards a non-hierarchical view of face perception

How a visual stimulus is initially categorized as a face in a network of human brain areas remains largely unclear. Hierarchical neuro-computational models of face perception assume that the visual stimulus is first decomposed in local parts in lower order visual areas. These parts would then be com...

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Main Authors: Bruno Rossion, Laurence Dricot, Rainer Goebel, Thomas Busigny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00225/full