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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