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The Occipital Face Area Is Causally Involved in Facial Viewpoint Perception

Tim C. Kietzmann, Sonia Poltoratski, Peter König, Randolph Blake, Frank Tong and Sam Ling
Journal of Neuroscience 16 December 2015, 35 (50) 16398-16403; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2493-15.2015
Tim C. Kietzmann
1Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany,
2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240,
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Sonia Poltoratski
2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240,
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Peter König
1Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany,
3Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany,
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2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240,
4Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea, and
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2Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240,
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Sam Ling
5Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02139
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    Stimuli and trial structure. A, Four identities, shown from 180 viewpoints, were used for the experiments. B, The symmetry judgment task required participants to report which of two pairs of faces were shown from mirror-symmetric viewpoints. The angle judgment task required reporting the pair with the larger difference in viewpoint. Shown here are examples from Experiment 1 (contralateral stimulation). In Experiment 2 (ipsilateral stimulation), the stimuli were presented to the right of fixation.

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    OFA targeting. The right OFA was defined functionally using individual fMRI localizer data, contrasting BOLD responses to faces versus houses/objects and corresponding scrambled stimuli (example participant shown).

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    Results of Experiments 1 and 2. Performance in the angle and symmetry tasks after sham and rTMS in the contralateral experiment (A) and ipsilateral experiment (B). C and D show the effect of TMS on both tasks when performed in the contralateral and ipsilateral visual fields, respectively. Error bars indicate ±SEM.

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    Eye-tracking control experiment. Shown are the average fixation positions, recorded during the presentation of the experimental stimuli, for both visual fields and tasks. Gray dots show single trial data; red dots and orange dots indicate average positions for individual TMS and control participants, respectively. Black dots indicate group averages of fixation positions.

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Tim C. Kietzmann, Sonia Poltoratski, Peter König, Randolph Blake, Frank Tong, Sam Ling
Journal of Neuroscience 16 December 2015, 35 (50) 16398-16403; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2493-15.2015

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Tim C. Kietzmann, Sonia Poltoratski, Peter König, Randolph Blake, Frank Tong, Sam Ling
Journal of Neuroscience 16 December 2015, 35 (50) 16398-16403; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2493-15.2015
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  • face recognition
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