Face-body interactions in the temporal visual cortex. KU Leuven
We perceive a human body as a whole and not as an arbitrary concatenation of a head with a face and a headless body. However, the large majority of cognitive neuroscience studies treat faces and (headless) bodies as separate units. This is also evident in the existence of a large research tradition on face perception and a separate (but less developed) research line on (faceless) body perception. Behavioral and neuroimaging studies in humans ...