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The fusiform face area (FFA, meaning spindle-shaped face area) is a part of the human visual system (while also activated in people blind from birth) [1] that is specialized for facial recognition. [2] It is located in the inferior temporal cortex (IT), in the fusiform gyrus (Brodmann area 37).
Face recognition involves configural information to process faces holistically. However, object recognition does not use configural information to form a holistic representation. Instead, each part of the object is processed independently to allow it to be recognised. This is known as a featural recognition method. [13]
The fusiform face area (FFA) was first described by Sergent et al.(1992) [1] who conducted a PET (positron emission tomography) study on subjects viewing gratings, faces, and objects. Facial identification exclusively produced increased bilateral activation in the fusiform gyrus, highlighting the dissociation between faces and other object ...
The fusiform gyrus or fusiform face area (FFA) deals more with facial and body recognition rather than objects. Diagram depicting different regions of the left cerebral hemisphere, fusiform in orange. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps differentiate between scenes and objects. Same as above, but parahippocampal gyrus now in orange.
Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.
The brain region that specifies in facial recognition is the fusiform face area. Prosopagnosia can also be divided into apperceptive and associative subtypes. Recognition of individual chairs, cars, animals can also be impaired; therefore, these object share similar perceptual features with the face that are recognized in the fusiform face area ...
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It is widely accepted that the FFA is involved in the encoding and retrieval of memory for faces and other familiar categorical processing. [4] Damage to the FFA has been shown to lead to severe deficits in facial recognition and processing. [5] These deficits can lead to difficulty in maintaining normal social relationships over an extended ...