PSYD50H3 Lecture Notes - Instrument Landing System Localizer, Extrastriate Body Area, Fusiform Gyrus
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997418021 con now more research needs to be done to find out why" this happens. Article 1: a cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body; downing, p. e. , jiang, y. , Hypothesis: to report evidence for a brain region (the extrastriate body area eba) in the human visual cortex that is selectively involved in processing the appearance of human bodies. Used 19 subjects: pro fairly good number for an fmri study, but con still not enough to be able to generalize across entire populations of people. Made the claim that the eba is selective for processing visual images of human bodies and body parts, but not faces. Findings support it because all 19/19 subjects eba"s activated when given the same stimuli. Many theories about which brain areas activate for faces (ie. research on the ffa) but not as many on what parts activate for human bodies.
