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Monkeys face face distortions

A study combines monkey behavioral testing with electrical stimulation of face patches, located with functional MRI and studied electrophysiologically, to probe the behavioral relevance of the face patches' selectivity.

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Figure 1: Task-dependent processing applied to the results of Moeller et al.4.

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Orban, G. Monkeys face face distortions. Nat Neurosci 20, 635–636 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4556

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