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Title | ||
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Processing of famous faces and medial temporal lobe event-related potentials: a depth electrode study. |
Abstract | ||
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The present study aims at analyzing the modulation of two types of event-related potentials originating from the human medial temporal lobe, the rhinal AMTL-N400 and the hippocampal P600 by the processing of famous faces. Therefore, we used a face recognition paradigm in which subjects had to discriminate the faces of famous persons from the faces of non-famous persons. Eleven patients with unilateral medial temporal lobe epilepsy undergoing intrahippocampal depth electrode recording for presurgical evaluation participated in this study. Event-related potentials (ERP) were recorded while a sequence of famous and non-famous faces was presented to the patients. The presentation of each face was repeated. The faces evoked N400-like potentials (anterior medial temporal lobe N400, AMTL-N400) in the rhinal cortex and P600-like potentials in the hippocampus. ERPs elicited by famous faces were contrasted with ERPs elicited by non-famous faces. The first presentation of famous faces elicited an enhanced AMTL-N400 and an enhanced hippocampal P600 in comparison to the second presentations of the famous faces or the (first and second presentation of the) non-famous faces. This findings are discussed in terms of associative semantic memory processes and the retrieval of person-specific information from long-term memory stores triggered by the processing of famous faces. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.11.033 | NeuroImage |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Face processing,Famous faces,Medial temporal lobe,Depth electrodes | Semantic memory,Event-related potential,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,N400,Rhinal cortex,Hippocampal formation,P600,Hippocampus,Temporal lobe | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
25 | 2 | 1053-8119 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
9 | 2.08 | 0 |
Authors | ||
10 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| T Dietl | 1 | 9 | 2.76 |
| Peter Trautner | 2 | 33 | 4.80 |
| M Staedtgen | 3 | 9 | 2.42 |
| M Vannucci | 4 | 11 | 3.42 |
| M Vannuchi | 5 | 9 | 2.08 |
| A Mecklinger | 6 | 9 | 2.08 |
| T Grunwald | 7 | 11 | 3.76 |
| H Clusmann | 8 | 9 | 2.08 |
| Christian E Elger | 9 | 232 | 32.56 |
| M Kurthen | 10 | 9 | 2.08 |