Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the right anterior fusiform gyrus impairs human face identity recognition

A Volfart, X Yan, L Maillard, S Colnat-Coulbois… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain regions located between the right fusiform face area (FFA) in the middle fusiform gyrus
and the temporal pole may play a critical role in human face identity recognition but their …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the face-selective right lateral fusiform gyrus transiently impairs face identity recognition

A Volfart, B Rossion, X Yan, L Angelini, L Maillard… - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging and intracranial electrophysiological studies have consistently shown the
largest and most consistent face-selective neural activity in the middle portion of the human …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation to understand the neural basis of human face identity recognition

J Jonas, B Rossion - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recognizing people's identity by their faces is a key function in the human species,
supported by regions of the ventral occipito‐temporal cortex (VOTC). In the last decade …

Electrical stimulation of human fusiform face-selective regions distorts face perception

J Parvizi, C Jacques, BL Foster, N Withoft… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Face-selective neural responses in the human fusiform gyrus have been widely examined.
However, their causal role in human face perception is largely unknown. Here, we used a …

Intracerebral electrophysiological recordings to understand the neural basis of human face recognition

B Rossion, C Jacques, J Jonas - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Understanding how the human brain recognizes faces is a primary scientific goal in
cognitive neuroscience. Given the limitations of the monkey model of human face …

Beyond the core face-processing network: Intracerebral stimulation of a face-selective area in the right anterior fusiform gyrus elicits transient prosopagnosia

J Jonas, B Rossion, H Brissart, S Frismand, C Jacques… - Cortex, 2015 - Elsevier
According to neuropsychological evidence, a distributed network of regions of the ventral
visual pathway–from the lateral occipital cortex to the temporal pole–supports face …

Face categorization in visual scenes may start in a higher order area of the right fusiform gyrus: evidence from dynamic visual stimulation in neuroimaging

F Jiang, L Dricot, J Weber, G Righi… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
How a visual stimulus is initially categorized as a face by the cortical face-processing
network remains largely unclear. In this study we used functional MRI to study the dynamics …

A face identity hallucination (palinopsia) generated by intracerebral stimulation of the face-selective right lateral fusiform cortex

J Jonas, H Brissart, G Hossu, S Colnat-Coulbois… - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
We report the case of a patient (MB, young female human subject) who systematically
experienced confusion between perceived facial identities specifically when electrically …

Modulation of face processing by emotional expression and gaze direction during intracranial recordings in right fusiform cortex

G Pourtois, L Spinelli, M Seeck… - Journal of cognitive …, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
We recorded intracranial local field potentials from structurally intact human visual cortex
during several face processing tasks in a patient before brain surgery. Intracranial local field …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation of a face-selective area in the right inferior occipital cortex impairs individual face discrimination

J Jonas, B Rossion, J Krieg, L Koessler… - NeuroImage, 2014 - Elsevier
During intracerebral stimulation of the right inferior occipital cortex, a patient with refractory
epilepsy was transiently impaired at discriminating two simultaneously presented …