Commentary: The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain

Bruno Rossion^{1

2}, Jessica Taubert³

Affiliations

¹ Face Categorization Lab, Psychological Sciences Research Institute and Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
² Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, France.
³ School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Comment

Bruno Rossion et al. Front Hum Neurosci. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 14:11:550.

doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00550. eCollection 2017.

Bruno Rossion^{1

2}, Jessica Taubert³

¹ Face Categorization Lab, Psychological Sciences Research Institute and Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
² Service de Neurologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nancy, Nancy, France.
³ School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: decoding; human specificity; individual face recognition; monkey brain; ventral temporal cortex.

Comment on

The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain.
Chang L, Tsao DY. Chang L, et al. Cell. 2017 Jun 1;169(6):1013-1028.e14. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.011. Cell. 2017. PMID: 28575666 Free PMC article.

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