Ambrus, Géza Gergely, Windel, Fabienne, Burton, A. Mike orcid.org/0000-0002-2035-2084 et al. (1 more author) (2017) Causal evidence of the involvement of the right occipital face area in face-identity acquisition. Neuroimage. pp. 212-218. ISSN 1053-8119
Abstract
There is growing evidence that the occipital face area (OFA), originally thought to be involved in the construction of a low-level representation of the physical features of a face, is also taking part in higher-level face processing. To test whether the OFA is causally involved in the learning of novel face identities, we have used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) together with a sequential sorting – face matching paradigm (Andrews et al. 2015). First, participants sorted images of two unknown persons during the initial learning phase while either their right OFA or the Vertex was stimulated using TMS. In the subsequent test phase, we measured the participants’ face matching performance for novel images of the previously trained identities and for two novel identities. We found that face-matching performance accuracy was higher for the trained as compared to the novel identities in the vertex control group, suggesting that the sorting task led to incidental learning of the identities involved. However, no such difference was observed between trained and novel identities in the rOFA stimulation group. Our results support the hypothesis that the role of the rOFA is not limited to the processing of low-level physical features, but it has a significant causal role in face identity encoding and in the formation of identity-specific memory-traces.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017, Elsevier Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | face perception,face recognition,identity,occipital face area,transcranial magnetic stimulation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2017 12:41 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:33 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.043 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.043 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112137 |
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