FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing
automatized by expertise
Michael J. Tarr1
& Isabel Gauthier2
1
Michael Tarr is at the Department of Cognitive and
Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Box 1978, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.
Michael_Tarr@brown.edu
2
Isabel Gauthier is at the Department of Psychology,
Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, Nashville
, Tennessee 37240, USA.
isabel.gauthier@vanderbilt.edu
Much evidence suggests that the fusiform face area is involved in
face processing. In contrast to the accompanying article by Kanwisher, we
conclude that the apparent face selectivity of this area reflects a more generalized
form of processing not intrinsically specific to faces.
