Are Greebles Special? Or, Why the Fusiform Fish Area Would be Recruited for Sword Expertise (If We had One)
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The fusiform face area (FFA) has commonly been deemed an area specialized for face processing.Many recent studies have challenged this view by showing that the FFA also responds to stimuli from domains in which the subject is an expert.We have developed neurocomputational models to explore the question of why an area initially devoted to face processing would later be recruited for other domains.Previous studies showed that the FFA could be a fine-level discriminator, spreading apart similar stimuli in its representational space.These characteristics would make it ideal for recruitment to other fine-level discrimination tasks.These initial findings have been challenged on several accounts.Here we introduce new work showing that the expertise effect remains despite additional controls on the type and difficulty of the task presented.
Institution: University of California San Diego
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2590800707