The neural mechanisms of face processing: cells, areas, networks, and models

TitleThe neural mechanisms of face processing: cells, areas, networks, and models
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsFreiwald, WA
JournalCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology
Volume60
Pagination184 - 191
Date Published02/2020
ISSN09594388
Abstract

Since its discovery, the face-processing network in the brain of the macaque monkey has emerged as a model system that allowed for major neural mechanisms of face recognition to be identified – with implications for object recognition at large. Populations of face cells encode faces through broad tuning curves, whose shapes change over time. Face representations differ qualitatively across faces areas, and we not only understand the global organization of these specializations, but also some of the transformations between face areas, both feed-forward and feed-back, and the computational principles behind face representations and transformations. Facial information is combined with physical features and mnemonic features in extensions of the core network, which forms an early part of the primate social brain.

URLhttps://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959438819301424
DOI10.1016/j.conb.2019.12.007
Short TitleCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology

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