Impaired Face Discrimination in Acquired Prosopagnosia Is Associated with Abnormal Response to Individual Faces in the Right Middle Fusiform Gyrus

Schiltz, Christine; Sorger, Bettina; Caldara, Roberto; Ahmed, Fatima; Mayer, E.; Goebel, Rainer; Rossion, Bruno

doi:10.1093/cercor/bhj005

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Impaired Face Discrimination in Acquired Prosopagnosia Is Associated with Abnormal Response to Individual Faces in the Right Middle Fusiform Gyrus

Published in Cerebral Cortex • Jul 20, 2005

Authors:

Christine Schiltz

Bettina Sorger

Roberto Caldara

Abstract

The middle fusiform gyrus (MFG) and the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG) are activated by both detection and identification of faces. Paradoxically, patients with acquired prosopagnosia following lesions to either of these regions in the right hemisphere cannot identify faces, but can still detect fac...

Subject

Fusiform face area

Fusiform gyrus

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

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