Figure 5. Meta-analysis of face perception with iterative addition of covariates.
Left; Only including binary predictors coding for the presence of faces on screen did not reveal activity in the right fusiform face area (rFFA). Middle; Controlling for speech removed spurious activations and revealed rFFA association with face presentation. Right; Controlling for temporal adaptation to face identity in addition to speech further strengthened the association between rFFA and face presentation. N=17 datasets; images were thresholded at Z=3.29 (p<0.001) voxel-wise.