The single-cell recording technique has long been used in attempts to dissociate two
regions of the temporal cortex involved in face recognition and facial expression processing …

In neurological clinics, the durations of unconsciousness and post-traumatic amnesia are
recognized as useful pointers to the severity of the underlying brain injury. In addition …

Over the past decade many researchers have tried to understand the perceptual, cognitive
and neurological processes involved in extracting meaning from the human face. The …

Recent studies demonstrated the role of the primate amygdala (AM) in social cognition. In
the present study, neuronal responses in the monkey amygdala were analyzed during …

Individuals with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD) have an impaired ability to interpret
facial expressions of emotion (FEE), the consequences of which can include progressively …

This chapter is structured as follows. First, the importance of the face as a substrate of
nonverbal communication is briefly outlined. Then, it is shown that certain types of brain …

The Primate Visual System Page 1 14The Functional Organization of Monkey Inferotemporal
Cortex Manabu Tanifuji CONTENTS 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Visual Images Activating IT Neurons …

Interpreting the results of visual object perception experiments is too often ill-posed due to
the disparate and sparse choice of stimuli. To address this problem, we have developed a …

It is only relatively recently that the search for the biological basis of social cognition has
started. It is still unknown just how biological factors, from genes to brain processes, interact …

To survive, organisms must be able to identify things to eat. However, we know relatively
little about how humans and other species learn to distinguish foods and non-foods, and in …