Extracting variant and invariant information from faces: The neural substrates of gaze detection and sex categorization

Jasmin Cloutier; David J. Turk; C. Neil Macrae

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Extracting variant and invariant information from faces: The neural substrates of gaze detection and sex categorization

Jasmin Cloutier^*, David J. Turk, C. Neil Macrae

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Guided by influential models of face processing, efforts have been expended to uncover the neural substrates subserving the many facets of face perception. Extending this work, the present study used functional brain imaging (fMRI) to explore the relationship between the operations supporting the explicit extraction of sex and gaze-related information from faces. The brain imaging data showed the right superior temporal sulcus to be preferentially involved during assessments of gaze direction and a region of the left fusiform gyrus to be involved during sex categorization. These results provide support for the distributed face-processing model advanced by Haxby and colleagues (2000).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-78
Number of pages	10
Journal	Social Neuroscience
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17470910701563483
Publication status	Published - Mar 2008

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Cognitive Science

Keywords

HUMAN FUSIFORM GYRUS
TEMPORAL CORTEX
EYE GAZE
DISTINCT REPRESENTATIONS
FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY
PERSON PERCEPTION
FACIAL IDENTITY
BRAIN
RECOGNITION
MIND

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Extracting variant and invariant information from faces: The neural substrates of gaze detection and sex categorization

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