Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

A longstanding controversy concerns the functional organization of high-level vision, and the
extent to which the recognition of different classes of visual stimuli engages a single system …

Accumulating evidence indicates that the anterior insular cortex (AIC) mediates interoceptive
attention which refers to attention towards physiological signals arising from the body …

The function of the fusiform face area (FFA), a face-selective region in human extrastriate
cortex, is a matter of active debate. Here we measured the correlation between FFA activity …

Visual face identification requires distinguishing between thousands of faces we know. This
computational feat involves a network of brain regions including the fusiform face area (FFA) …

Prosopagnosia is a selective visual agnosia characterized by the inability to recognize the
identity of faces. There are both acquired forms secondary to brain damage and …

Congenital prosopagnosia refers to the deficit in face processing that is apparent from early
childhood in the absence of any underlying neurological basis and in the presence of intact …

Extensive research has supported the existence of a specialized face-processing network
that is distinct from the visual processing areas used for general object recognition. The …

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) refers to face recognition deficits in the absence of
brain damage. DP affects∼ 2% of the population, and it often runs in families. DP studies …

Empathy refers to the ability to perceive and share another person's affective state. Much
neuroimaging evidence suggests that observing others' suffering and pain elicits activations …