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January 22, 2019; 92 (4) Video NeuroImages

Face-selective neurons in the vicinity of the human fusiform face area

View ORCID ProfileVadim Axelrod, Camille Rozier, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Katia Lehongre, Claude Adam, Virginie Lambrecq, Vincent Navarro, Lionel Naccache
First published January 21, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000006806
Vadim Axelrod
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Camille Rozier
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Tal Seidel Malkinson
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Katia Lehongre
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Claude Adam
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Virginie Lambrecq
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Vincent Navarro
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Lionel Naccache
From The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (V.A.), Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel; Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unité 1127 (C.R., T.S.M., K.L., V.L., V.N., L.N.), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 7225, Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Univ Paris 06 UMR S 1127, Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Épinière; Centre de NeuroImagerie de Recherche–CENIR (K.L.), Institute of Brain and Spine, UMRS 1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Pitié‐Salpêtriere Hospital; Epilepsy Unit and Neurophysiology Department (C.A., V.L., V.N.), AP‐HP, GH Pitie‐Salpêtrière‐Charles Foix; and Departments of Neurology and Neurophysiology (L.N.), AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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Face-selective neurons in the vicinity of the human fusiform face area
Vadim Axelrod, Camille Rozier, Tal Seidel Malkinson, Katia Lehongre, Claude Adam, Virginie Lambrecq, Vincent Navarro, Lionel Naccache
Neurology Jan 2019, 92 (4) 197-198; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000006806

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Face perception is thought to be mediated by neural activity in the occipital and posterior temporal cortex.1,2 However, the face-selective neurons at the cellular level in these areas in humans have never been demonstrated. We had a rare opportunity to record intracranial multi-unit activity in an epilepsy patient near the fusiform face area2 (figure 1A). We identified 2 units with highly face-selective response to static images of familiar (famous) and unfamiliar faces (figure 1B and video 1; figure e-1a, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.81t0fq1) as well as to human and animal faces that appeared in a movie (figure 1C, video 1, figure e-1b).

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