Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesNeurosciencePeer-reviewed journal article
Visual Experience is not Necessary for the Development of Face Selectivity in the Lateral Fusiform Gyrus
N. Apurva Ratan MurtyiD, Santani TengiD, David Beeler, Anna MynickiD, Aude OlivaiD, Nancy KanwisheriD
Abstract
Here we show robust face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus of congenitally blind participants during haptic exploration of 3D-printed stimuli, indicating that neither visual experience, nor fovea-biased input, nor visual expertise is necessary for face-selectivity to arise in its characteristic location. Similar resting fMRI correlation fingerprints in individual blind and sighted participants suggest a role for long-range connectivity in the specification of the cortical locus of face-selectivity.
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