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Face to face with cortex

Nature Neuroscience volume 11, pages 862–864 (2008)Cite this article

Two new studies in Science and Nature Neuroscience combine functional magnetic resonance imaging and electrical microstimulation to reveal face-selective temporal and frontal areas and their connectivity.

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Figure 1: Distributed face-selective patches in monkey temporal and prefrontal cortex.

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