PSYD50H3 Lecture Notes - Instrument Landing System Localizer, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Passerine
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Article #1: the fusiform face area : a module in human extrastriate cortex. The hypothesis of this study was that the fusiform gyrus is the specialized area for face perception. Past studies suggested that face and object recognition involve qualitatively different processes that may occur in distinct brain areas. In macaques, neurons in the superior temporal sulcus (sts) respond specifically to faces. Experimenters looked for a region of interest on subjects. Subjects: 20 normal subjects, under the age of 40 ( five were omitted due to head motion) Stimulus: 90 freshman id photographs, 90 object photographs, 90 house photographs. Part 1: during each stimulus epoch, 45 different photographs were presented at a rate of 1 per. 670 ms. - subjects were instructed to maintain fixation during non stimulus epochs ( or in stimulus epochs) and to look solely at the stimuli.
