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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2009 May 28;19(13):1146–1150. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.04.060

Figure 2. Activation foci exhibiting a familiarity effect outside VOTC.

Figure 2

a. A statistical test contrasting all famous and unknown faces was conducted separately for two subgroups of controls with 6 participants in each and for the congenital prosopagnosia group (multi subject GLM, fixed effects, p<0.002 Bonferroni corrected). The analysis revealed selective activation for famous compared to unknown faces in the left precuneus/posterior cingulate cortex and the anterior paracingulate cortex in both control groups but not in the congenital prosopagnosia group. The average activation across each control subgroup is overlaid on sagittal, coronal and axial slices of one individual subject. Note the absence of familiarity selective activation in the CP group (lower panel). (L=left hemisphere, R=right hemisphere).