To 1/10: 'Face to Face' photo exhibit Oct 20, 2009
Faces are so central to the human experience that we have evolved a special place in our brain - the fusiform face area on the ventral surface of the temporal lobe on the fusiform gyrus, down in the bottom gulley of our skulls - whose sole purpose is recognizing them. Phoenix Art Museum: 'Face to Face. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Illusions: What's in a face? Oct 7, 2009
The neurons responsible for our refined face sense lie in a brain region called the fusiform gyrus. Lesions or trauma to this brain area result in a rare neurological condition called prosopagnosia, or face blindness. (Scientific American)
Neural processing of idiomatic language Sep 16, 2009
Occipito/temporal N2 component had a greater amplitude in response to idioms between 250-300 ms. Related swLORETA source reconstruction revealed a difference in the activation of the left fusiform gyrus (FG, BA19) and medial frontal gyri for the contrast idiomatic-minus-literal. Centroparietal N400 was much larger to idiomatic than to literal phrases (360-550 ms). (BioMed Central)
Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading Apr 28, 2009
The authors showed very early interactions between the vision and language domains during reading, with the speech motor areas of the brain (inferior frontal gyrus) being active at the same time (after a seventh of a second) as the orthographic word-form is being resolved within a brain region called the fusiform gyrus ... The left inferior frontal gyrus response to words peaked at ~130 ms. This response was significantly later in time than the left middle occipital gyrus, which peaked at ~115... (EurekAlert!)
Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology Study Mar 29, 2009
During word-based tasks, activity in a functionally defined brain region that responded to viewing pictorial stimuli, the fusiform gyrus, correlated with self-reported visualizer ratings on the VVQ test. In contrast, activity in a phonologically related brain region, the supramarginal gyrus, correlated with the verbalizer dimension of the VVQ during the picture-based condition. (Science Daily)
Heightened level of amygdala activity may cause social deficits in autism Mar 20, 2009
The scientists were interested in what happened in two brain regions, the amygdala and the fusiform gyrus, when the subjects viewed the faces. It turned out that the fusiform gyrus, which helps determine what kind of object a person is looking at a face or a house, for example showed no habituation in either group. (EurekAlert!)
