Figure 3. The third pathway exhibits no visual field bias.

A. Face-selective areas in the human occipitotemporal cortex. The posterior superior temporal sulcus is in the third pathway. The occipital face area and fusiform face area are both in the ventral pathway. B. There is a contralateral visual field bias in face-selective areas in the ventral pathway (10,11,32,33), while the pSTS had no visual field bias [10]. This same lack of a visual field bias is also seen in the dorsal bank and fundus of the macaque STS [5,30]. C. Group social interactions necessitate directing and redirecting attention to different individuals across the visual field. The lack of visual field bias in the pSTS is consistent with the functional role of the lateral pathway in social cognition.