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Nancy Kanwisher

Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Domain specificity in face perception

N Kanwisher - Nature neuroscience, 2000 - nature.com
Is face perception carried out by modules specialized only for processing faces? Or are
faces perceived by domain-general mechanisms that can also operate on non-face stimuli? …

The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces

N Kanwisher, G Yovel - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… reside in centre-biased cortex either because it has computational properties necessary for
face processing, or because we tend to foveate faces during development (Kanwisher 2001). …

[HTML][HTML] The lateral occipital complex and its role in object recognition

K Grill-Spector, Z Kourtzi, N Kanwisher - Vision research, 2001 - Elsevier
Here we review recent findings that reveal the functional properties of extra-striate regions
in the human visual cortex that are involved in the representation and perception of objects. …

The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception

N Kanwisher, J McDermott, MM Chun - 2002 - direct.mit.edu
… A similar bilateral activation in the parahippocampal region for objects compared with faces
was seen in most of the subjects run in this study; this result is described briefly in Kanwisher

A cortical representation of the local visual environment

R Epstein, N Kanwisher - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
Medial temporal brain regions such as the hippocampal formation and parahippocampal
cortex have been generally implicated in navigation 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 and visual memory 7 , 8 , …

People thinking about thinking people: the role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind”

R Saxe, N Kanwisher - Social neuroscience, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
Humans powerfully and flexibly interpret the behaviour of other people based on an understanding
of their minds: that is, we use a “theory of mind.” In this study we distinguish theory of …

A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body

PE Downing, Y Jiang, M Shuman, N Kanwisher - Science, 2001 - science.org
… We further tested the response of the EBA (n = 5) to gray-scale images of human bodies
and articulated objects presented in short animation sequences. The motion sequences were …

The fusiform face area subserves face perception, not generic within-category identification

K Grill-Spector, N Knouf, N Kanwisher - Nature neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
The function of the fusiform face area (FFA), a face-selective region in human extrastriate
cortex, is a matter of active debate. Here we measured the correlation between FFA activity …

Mental imagery of faces and places activates corresponding stimulus-specific brain regions

KM O'Craven, N Kanwisher - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2000 - direct.mit.edu
What happens in the brain when you conjure up a mental image in your mind's eye? We
tested whether the particular regions of extrastriate cortex activated during mental imagery …

[PDF][PDF] Binocular rivalry and visual awareness in human extrastriate cortex

F Tong, K Nakayama, JT Vaughan, N Kanwisher - Neuron, 1998 - cell.com
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor stimulus-selective responses
of the human fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA) during …