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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Processing

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  • The face inversion effect impairs facial recognition.
  • Facial feature configuration becomes less perceptible upon inversion.
  • Face patches in the macaque temporal visual cortex process facial images.

Purpose:

  • To investigate the neural basis of the face inversion effect.
  • To determine the role of the anterior face patch in processing inverted faces.

Summary:

  • Neurons in the anterior face patch encode view-invariant identity.
  • Inversion decreased information about facial identity and expression.
  • Inversion did not affect information about stimulus category (monkey, human, shape).

Impact:

  • The anterior face patch may underlie the face inversion effect.
  • Provides insights into neural mechanisms of face perception.
  • Highlights the role of specific cortical areas in visual processing.