title: Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans.
abstract: Face recognition is of central importance for primate social behavior. In both humans and macaques, the visual analysis of faces is supported by a set of specialized face areas. The precise organization of these areas and the correspondence between individual macaque and human face-selective areas are debated. Here, we examined the organization of face-selective regions across the temporal lobe in a large number of macaque and human subjects. Macaques showed 6 regions of face-selective cortex arranged in a stereotypical pattern along the temporal lobe. Human subjects showed, in addition to 3 reported face areas (the occipital, fusiform, and superior temporal sulcus face areas), a face-selective area located anterior to the fusiform face area, in the anterior collateral sulcus. These results suggest a closer anatomical correspondence between macaque and human face-processing systems than previously realized.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Brain Research and Center for Advanced Imaging, University of Bremen, P.O. Box 330440, D-28334 Bremen, Germany. doris@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Doris Y
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Tsao
authors.forename: Sebastian
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moeller
authors.forename: Winrich A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Freiwald
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*