fMRI: research / W5L1

Question 1

What did Kanwisher et al. (1997) investigate?

Answer 1

How faces are represented in the brain.

Also know as the “Fusiform Face Area” (FFA)

Question 2

What is the fusiform gyrus ?

Answer 2

An area located by Kanwisher et al. as responsible for processing faces.

Question 3

How did Kanwisher et al. (1997) solidify their findings?

Answer 3

They repeated their experiment with multiple different controls.
eg. Hand, scrambled faces, houses

Question 4

What is the Parahippocampal Place Area (PPA) responsible for?

Answer 4

Houses and places.

Question 5

What did Gauthier et al. (1999) show?

Answer 5

That the FFA actually might reflect *expertise *.

After participants familiarised themselves with abstracted fictional faces, Greebles, the FFA became active when shown faces and Greeble stimuli.

Question 6

What did Malach and colleagues (2002) hypothese?

Answer 6

That the FFA might typically represent what is found in the centre of our vision

Question 6

What did Malach and colleagues (2002) hypothese?

Answer 6

That the FFA might typically represent what is found in the centre of our vision

That the FFA specalises for objects that require high resolution.

Question 7

How did Malach and colleagues (2002) consider eccentricity mapping ?

Answer 7

This was used to describe an organising principle of the visual cortex. That the visual system might be organised not by objects, but where their appear in the visual system.

Question 8

How did Malach and colleagues (2002) consider eccentricity mapping ?

Answer 8

This was used to describe an organising principle of the visual cortex. That the visual system might be organised not by objects, but where their appear in the visual system.