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When the whole is only the parts: non-holistic object parts predominate face-cell responses to illusory faces

2023-09-22

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<h4>Summary</h4> Humans are inclined to perceive faces in everyday objects with a face-like configuration. This illusion, known as face pareidolia, is often attributed to a specialized network of ‘face cells’ in primates. We found that face cells in macaque inferotemporal cortex responded selectively to pareidolia images, but this selectivity did not require a holistic, face-like configuration, nor did it encode...

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Literature Corpus work: fdc771cd-3f6c-5d85-a917-d5b6ffd10087
DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.22.558887

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