Parallel processing in the visual cortex - Detailed analysis of shape

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To what do cells in the inferior temperal cortex respond?

They respond to identifable objects (a cell that responded to a particular stimulus would respond almost equally to its megative image of mirror image but not to a physically similar stimulus

To what do human newborns pay more attention to when they look around?

Faces

Which brain areas (especially of the right hemisphere) does face recognition depend on?

Parts of the occipital cortex, anterior temporal cortex, prefrontal cortex, fusiform gyrus of the inferior temporal cortex
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Why are people with prosopagnosio poor at recognizing faces?

They were born with a shortage of connections to and from the fusiform gyrus

What does the existence of prosopagnosia tell us about seperate shape recognition systems in the visual cortex?

It implies that the cortical mechanism for identifying faces is different from the mechanism for identifying other complex stimuli

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