9.10/9.100 REVIEW QUESTIONS
Face Perception
1. Many people believe that face recognition is a special class of
object recognition with its own cortical region devoted to it. What
evidence has accumulated to support this point of view? What is an
alternative hypothesis that would be consistent with this evidence?
2. What evidence is there to support the hypothesis that face and place
recognition are processed separately? What part of the brain is thought
to mediate place recognition?
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