Tarr, M.J. & Gauthier, I. (August 2000). FFA: A flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise. Nature Neuroscience, Volume 3, Number 8, 764-769.
The article explores the controversy over face perception in the fusiform gyrus. Is face perception carried out by domain-specific mechanisms specialized for processing faces in particular, or are faces handled by domain-general mechanisms? This article argues for the latter alternative. Specifically, it emphasizes categorization and expertise in a given object domain (e.g. faces, cars) affect the response of the fusiform area independent of stimulus geometry. Counter-evidence and rebuttals are too complicated to get into in such a summary. However, the heatedness of the debate leaves this issue far from closed.
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