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  • Primate Brain Research

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  • Primate brains possess face-selective areas for social information processing.
  • A key question is whether these areas respond to visual attributes or social agents.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if the macaque face patch system shows a whole-agent response beyond individual face/body processing.
  • To determine the neural basis of social agent perception in primates.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in macaques.
  • Analysis of responses to faces and bodies within face-selective areas.

Main Results:

  • A developmental gradient of whole-agent preference was observed in face patches, from posterior to anterior regions.
  • Superadditive integration (whole-agent response) was found in anterior face patches, but not with non-body objects.
  • This superadditivity was independent of facial detail and absent in adjacent body patches, indicating face-specific processing.

Conclusions:

  • The anterior fundus (AF) face patch is crucial for linking facial analysis with semantic inferences about social agents.
  • An asymmetry in face- and body-processing systems may explain how social signals are attributed.
  • Whole-agent selectivity develops along the anterior-posterior axis of the face patch system.