298
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Faces and Brains: The Limitations of Brain Scanning in Cognitive Science

Pages 197-207 | Published online: 23 Apr 2007

References

  • Bodamer , J . 1947 . Die Prosop-Agnosie: Die Agnosie des Physiognomieerkennens . European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience , 179 ( 1–2 ) : 6 – 53 .
  • Bruyer , R , Laterre , C , Seron , X , Feyereisen , P , Strypstein , E , Pierrand , E and Rectem , D . 1983 . A case of prosopagnosia with some preserved covert remembrance of familiar faces . Brain and Cognition , 2 ( 3 ) : 257 – 284 .
  • Ellis , AW and Young , AW . 1997 . Human cognitive neuropsychology: A textbook with readings , Hove, , England : Psychology Press .
  • Fagan , JF . 1972 . Infant's recognition memory for faces . Journal of Experimental Child Psychology , 14 ( 3 ) : 453 – 476 .
  • Fantz , RL . 1963 . Pattern vision in newborn infants . Science , 140 : 296 – 297 .
  • Farah , MJ , Wilson , KD , Drain , M and Tanaka , JN . 1998 . What is ‘special’ about face perception? . Psychological Review , 105 : 482 – 498 .
  • Gauthier , I , Tarr , MJ , Andersen , AW , Skudlarski , P and Gore , JC . 1999 . Activation of the middle fusiform “face area” increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects . Nature Neuroscience , 2 : 568 – 573 .
  • Gauthier , I , Tarr , MJ , Moylen , J , Andersen , AW , Skudlarski , P and Gore , JC . 2000 . Does visual subordinate-level categorization engage the functionally defined fusiform face area? . Cognitive Neuropsychology , 17 ( 1/2/3 ) : 143 – 163 .
  • Grill Spector , K , Knouf , N and Kanwisher , N . 2004 . The fusiform face area subserves face perception not generic within category identification . Nature Neuroscience , 7 : 555 – 562 .
  • Hanson , SJ , Matsukaa , T and Haxby , JV . 2004 . Combinatorial codes in ventral temporal lobe for object recognition: Haxby (2001) revisited: Is there a “face” area? . NeuroImage , 23 : 156 – 166 .
  • Haxby , J , Gobbini , MI , Furey , ML , Ishai , A , Schouten , JL and Pietrini , P . 2001 . Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex . Science , 293 : 2424 – 2430 .
  • Humphreys , GW and Riddoch , J . 1987 . To see but not to see: A case study of visual agnosia , London : Erlbaum .
  • Johnson , MH and Morton , J . 1991 . Biology and cognitive development: The case of face recognition , Cambridge, , UK : Blackwell .
  • Juola , P and Plunkett , K . 2000 . “ Why double dissociations don't mean much ” . In Exploring cognition: Damaged brains and neural networks: Readings in cognitive neuropsychology and connectionist modeling , Edited by: Cohen , G , Johnston , R and Plunkett , K . 319 – 327 . New York : Psychology Press .
  • Kanwisher , N and Moscovitch , M . 2000 . The cognitive neuroscience of face processing: An introduction . Cognitive Neuropsychology , 17 : 1 – 11 .
  • Kanwisher , N and Yovel , G . 2006 . The fusiform face area: A cortical region specialized for the perception of faces . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B , 361 : 2109 – 2128 .
  • Kanwisher , N , McDermott , J and Chun , MM . 1997 . The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception . The Journal of Neuroscience , 17 : 4302 – 4311 .
  • McNeil , JE and Warrington , EK . 1993 . Prosopagnosia: A face-specific disorder . The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A: Human Experimental Psychology , 46A ( 1 ) : 1 – 10 .
  • Nelson , CA . 2001 . The development and neural bases of face recognition . Infant and Child Development , 10 : 3 – 18 .
  • Pallis , CA . 1955 . Impaired identification of faces and places with agnosia for colours. Report of a case due to cerebral embolism . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry , 18 : 218 – 224 .
  • Tanaka , JW and Farah , MJ . 1993 . Parts and wholes in face recognition . The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A: Human Experimental Psychology , 46A ( 2 ) : 225 – 245 .
  • Tarr , MJ and Gauthier , I . 2000 . FFA: A flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise . Nature Neuroscience , 3 : 764 – 769 .
  • Thompson , P . 1980 . Margaret Thatcher: A new illusion . Perception , 9 ( 4 ) : 483 – 484 .
  • Wojcinlik , E , Kanwisher , N and Driver , J . 1998 . Covert visual attention modulates face-specific activity in the human fusiform gyrus: fMRI study . Journal of Neurophysiology , 79 : 1574 – 1578 .
  • Xu , Y . 2005 . Revisiting the role of the fusiform face area in visual expertise . Cerebral Cortex , 15 : 1234 – 1242 .
  • Yin , RK . 1969 . Looking at upside-down faces . Journal of Experimental Psychology , 81 : 141 – 145 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.