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3054 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Functional organization of the human neural system for face perception
Convener and Chair: Y.J. Luo, China
Co-convener: J. Haxby, USA
3054.1 Distributed representation of faces in human extrastriate cortex, J.V. Haxby, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Face perception operations can be divided into two broad categories that require distinct
representations, namely the perception of invariant aspects of face structure for recognition of
identity and the perception of facial movement and changeable aspects of faces for recognition of
facial gesture. Functional neuroimaging indicates that these two classes of operations have
dissociable representations in different parts of extrastriate visual cortex. Moreover, within the
areas which contain these representations, a local distribution of representation can be detected
which may provide clues to how population responses encode face identity and gesture.
3054.2 Neural correlates of face recognition with different orientation and different race, Y.J.
Luo, X.H. Peng, X.J. Ye, W. Wu, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,
China
Neural correlates of orientation effect and different race effect were studied by ERPs working
memory experiments. Results suggested that more resource maybe distributed to other race faces
in the early stage of processing, which supports the theory of other race effect; faces in 135/225
are the most difficult to recognize, and support the idea that different cortical mechanisms might
be involved in recognition of own-race faces as oppose to other race faces; N260 is at occipital
area for the oriental faces, in contrast to a small N260 for the Caucasian faces, it may reflect
neural signature or Specific Race Component.
3054.3 Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces, M.I. Gobbini,
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Familiarity associated with faces includes two fundamental aspects, the visual representation and
social and emotional information. We investigated with fMRI the response to familiar faces
associated with a high degree of emotional valence. Viewing familiar faces modulated activity in
areas that have been associated with the representation of the personal attributes and mental states
of others, in areas associated with emotional response, such as the amygdala, and in
face-responsive regions in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. The results of these studies
suggest that recognition of a familiar individual involves more than the representation of that
person appearance.
3054.4 Impaired recognition of human signals of aggression following damage to the ventral
striatum, A.J. Calder 1 , J. Keane 1 , A.D. Lawrence 1 , F. Manes 2 , 1 MRC Cognition and Brain
Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England; 2 Raul Carrea Institute for Neurological Research, Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Comparative neuropsychology has identified a role for the ventral striatum (VS) in certain forms
of aggression. To address whether homologous human regions contribute to the perception of
anger in others, we studied a case series of four patients with focal lesions affecting the VS. All
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