Figure 6.

Responses of four temporal cortex neurons to whole faces and to parts of faces. The mean firing rate ± sem are shown. The responses are shown as changes from the spontaneous firing rate of each neuron. Some neurons respond to one or several parts of faces presented alone. Other neurons (of which the top one is an example) respond only to the combination of the parts (and only if they are in the correct spatial configuration with respect to each other as shown by Rolls et al., 1994). The control stimuli were non-face objects. (After Perrett et al., 1982.)