• The occipital face area (OFA) is a region of the human cerebral cortex which is specialised for face perception. The OFA is located on the lateral surface...
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    of the occipital lobe are several occipital gyri, which are separated by lateral occipital sulcus. The occipital aspects along the inside face of each...
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    superior occipital gyrus, the middle occipital gyrus, and the inferior occipital gyrus, and these are also known as the occipital face area. The superior...
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    the fusiform face area. The occipital face area is located in the inferior occipital gyrus. Similar to the fusiform face area, this area is also active...
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    Prosopagnosia (redirect from Face blindness)
    lesions in various parts of the inferior occipital areas (occipital face area), fusiform gyrus (fusiform face area), and the anterior temporal cortex. Positron...
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  • faces in left-handers than in right-handers. However the occipital face area shows no such correlation, and so handedness is thought to impact face processing...
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  • of the parahippocampal place area and lateral occipital cortex. There seems to be something different about inverted faces that requires them to also involve...
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  • refined processing occurs within the fusiform face area (FFA), the occipital face area (OFA), and the face-selective region of the superior temporal sulcus...
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    The fusiform face area (FFA, meaning spindle-shaped face area) is a part of the human visual system (while also activated in people blind from birth) that...
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    The greater occipital nerve is a nerve of the head. It is a spinal nerve, specifically the medial branch of the dorsal primary ramus of cervical spinal...
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