Optogenetic and pharmacological suppression of spatial clusters of face neurons reveal their causal role in face gender discrimination

Neurons that respond more to images of faces over nonface objects were identified in the inferior temporal (IT) cortex of primates three decades ago. Although it is hypothesized that perceptual discrimination between faces depends on the neural activity of IT subregions enriched with “face neurons,”...

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Main Authors: Afraz, Arash, DiCarlo, James, Boyden, Edward
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99639
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1592-5896
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0419-3351

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