New Face Patch Discovered (image)

Caption
A network of face processing areas within the macaque brain (red and yellow, shown from the side) responds selectively to face motion over other kinds of motion, researchers discovered. Their work also revealed a new face patch within this network (circled), which they call the middle dorsal patch.
Credit
Laboratory of Neural Systems at The Rockefeller University/Current Biology
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