Centre for Systems Neuroscience, University of Leicester, 9 Salisbury Rd., Leicester LE1 7QR, UK.
Cell. 2017 Jun 1;169(6):975-977. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.012.
How individual faces are encoded by neurons in high-level visual areas has been a subject of active debate. An influential model is that neurons encode specific faces. However, Chang and Tsao conclusively show that, instead, these neurons encode features along specific axes, which explains why they were previously found to respond to apparently different faces.
高级视觉区域的神经元如何对个体人脸进行编码一直是一个活跃的争论话题。一个有影响力的模型是,神经元编码特定的人脸。然而,Chang 和 Tsao 明确表明,相反,这些神经元沿着特定的轴编码特征,这解释了为什么之前发现它们对明显不同的人脸有反应。