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	Gray, Henry. 1918. Anatomy of the Human Body. Page 824
		The superior temporal gyrus lies between the posterior ramus of the lateral fissure and the superior temporal sulcus, and is continuous behind with the supramarginal and angular gyri.
		The inferior temporal gyrus is placed below the middle temporal sulcus, and is connected behind with the inferior occipital gyrus; it also extends around the infero-lateral border on to the inferior surface of the temporal lobe, where it is limited by the inferior sulcus.
		Lateral to this fissure is the narrow tentorial part of the inferior temporal gyrus, and medial to it the fusiform gyrus, which extends from the occipital to the temporal pole; this gyrus is limited medially by the collateral fissure, which separates it from the lingual gyrus behind and from the hippocampal gyrus in front.
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	Glossary of brain regions
		fusiform gyrus: a gyrus in the temporal lobe.
		It is located primarily in the precentral gyrus and caudal portions of the superior frontal gyrus and the middle frontal gyrus.
		primary motor cortex: is in the precentral gyrus in the frontal lobe.
	www.memory-key.com /MemoryGuide/glossary_brain.htm (3919 words)

	AANS.org \| Education and Meetings \| AANS Scientific Journals \| Neurosurgical Focus
		The superior temporal gyrus is not manipulated, and awake craniotomy for language mapping on the dominant side is not necessary.
		The superior temporal gyrus is defined by the opercular branches of the middle cerebral artery, which originates in the sylvian fissure, courses along the dorsal lateral surface of the gyrus, and enters the superior temporal sulcus (Fig.
		The middle temporal gyrus is thick and usually twice the size of the superior temporal gyrus.
	www.aans.org /education/journal/neurosurgical/nov96/1-5-4.asp (2833 words)

	Subtemporal transparahippocampal...
		The authors report a modification of a surgical technique for AH via the parahippocampal gyrus, in which excision is limited to the anterior hippocampus, amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus while preserving the fusiform gyrus and the rest of the temporal lobe.
		In addition, "there is inevitably some injury to the superior temporal, inferior temporal and fusiform gyri,"[34] and 20% of the anterior temporal stem of the superior temporal gyrus is transected in the transsylvian AH.[35] The transcortical AH proposed by Niemeyer[16] is technically easier than the transslyvian approach, but damages the lateral temporal cortex.
		Third, as to excision of the fusiform gyrus, the sole purpose of resecting it in the operation described by Hori, et al.,[14] appears to be to open the temporal horn easily because there is no evidence that excision of the fusiform gyrus in AH improves seizure outcome.
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	Fusiform gyrus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fusiform gyrus is part of the temporal lobe.
		frontal lobe: precentral gyrus (primary motor cortex, 4), precentral sulcus, superior frontal gyrus (6, 8), middle frontal gyrus (46), inferior frontal gyrus (Broca's area, 44-pars opercularis, 45-pars triangularis), prefrontal cortex (orbitofrontal cortex, 9, 10, 11, 12, 47)
		parietal lobe: postcentral sulcus, postcentral gyrus (1, 2, 3, 43), superior parietal lobule (5), inferior parietal lobule (39-angular gyrus, 40), precuneus (7), intraparietal sulcus
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fusiform_gyrus (289 words)

	Middle and Inferior Temporal Gyrus Gray Matter Volume Abnormalities in Chronic Schizophrenia: An MRI Study -- Onitsuka ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		of the fusiform gyrus in chronic schizophrenia (25).
		of the inferior temporal gyrus, and the occipitotemporal sulcus
		temporal gyrus, inferior temporal gyrus, and fusiform gyrus
	ajp.psychiatryonline.org /cgi/content/full/161/9/1603 (4129 words)

	BrainConnection.com - Research in Visual Perception: The Significance of Face Recognition - Part 4
		Their research showed that the fusiform gyrus became significantly more active when the subjects were presented with faces than when they were looking at other objects.
		Gauthier's data showed that the fusiform area is active during this task, a result that differed from previous studies in which the fusiform gyrus was not active when subjects viewed animals.
		Gauthier's interpretation of this data is that the fusiform gyrus can distinguish a particular face within the general category of faces, in much the same way that this gyrus can distinguish a particular type of bird within the general category of birds.
	www.brainconnection.com /topics/?main=fa/face-perception4 (660 words)

	LONI: LONI Resource \| Downloads \| Protocols \| Masking Regions of Interest \| Fusiform Gyrus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The lateral boundary of the fusiform is the lateral occipitotemporal sulcus which separates the inferior temporal gyrus from the fusiform.
		In the coronal view, the fusiform’s anterior boundary is marked by the emergence of the temporal horn, collateral sulcus and amygdala (Fig.
		The corresponding slice in the coronal view is the posterior boundary of the fusiform gyrus.
	www.loni.ucla.edu /NCRR/Downloads/Protocols/MaskingRegions_16.html (238 words)

	Misidentification syndromes related to face specific area in the fusiform gyrus -- Hudson and Grace 69 (5): 645 -- ...
		There are also atrophic changes in the right hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus and (not shown) in the fusiform gyrus.
		(D) Schematic illustration of the inferior surface of the brain demonstrates the approximate extent of the damage (grey shade) in the fusiform gyrus as derived from the MRI in comparison with the putative location and extent of the fusiform face (hatched) area.
		CS=collateral sulcus; FG=fusiform gyrus; ITG=inferior temporal gyrus; LG=lingual gyrus; OTS=occipitotemporal sulcus; PG=parahippocampal gyrus.
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/69/5/645 (2116 words)

	School of Communication at Northwestern University :: Communication Sciences and Disorders :: Papers Related to Lab ...
		In contrast, the modality comparison for children revealed no activation in the fusiform gyrus for visual word forms and modest activation in the superior temporal gyrus for auditory word forms.
		In contrast, performance on the auditory spelling task was inversely correlated with activation in the superior temporal gyrus possibly reflecting a greater emphasis on the properties of the perceptual input rather than on the relevant transmodal conversions.
		Our findings suggest that the fusiform gyrus processes orthographic word forms, the superior temporal gyrus processes phonologic word forms, and posterior heteromodal regions are involved in the conversion between orthography and phonology.
	www.communication.northwestern.edu /csd/research/cognitive/papers (6027 words)

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		In 9/10 subjects it was possible to localize a vertically-directed ECD at 167 ms to the inferior surface of the posterior fusiform gyrus (4 S), or to the fundus of the sulcus between the fusiform and inferior temporal g (4 S).
		This data suggests a shift in the dominant processing from the fusiform area (thought to be involved in encoding the stimulus) to the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, thought to be involved in higher-order analysis, including working memory.
		This was also observed, and indeed the phase lag from the fusiform to the other structures was a monotonic function of their separation, with the slope of the function corresponding to the conduction velocity that one would expect for cortico-cortical connections.
	www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu /meg/halgren/faces_details.html (1979 words)

	Face perception - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Studies by Gauthier have shown that an area of the brain known as the fusiform gyrus (sometimes called the 'fusiform face area' because it is active during face recognition) is also active when study participants are asked to discriminate between different types of birds and cars
		This suggests that the fusiform gyrus may have a general role in the recognition of similar visual objects.
		Therefore, it is still not clear in exactly which situations the fusiform gyrus becomes active, although it is certain that face recognition relies heavily on this area and damage to it can lead to severe face recognition impairment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Face_perception (1435 words)

	Electrophysiological Studies of Human Face Perception. I: Potentials Generated in Occipitotemporal Cortex by Face and ...
		Electrode 1 was just anterior to the marginal sulcus, electrodes 2–6 were on the precuneus, posterior cingulate gyrus, and retrosplenial cortex, electrode 7 was on the lingual gyrus, electrode 8 was on the medial fusiform gyrus medial to the midfusiform sulcus, and electrodes 9 and 10 were on the lateral fusiform gyrus.
		Electrodes 1 and 2 were on the inferior temporal gyrus, electrodes 3 and 4 were on the middle temporal gyrus, and electrodes 5–8 were on the superior temporal and angular gyri.
		Electrode 5 was on the border of the middle temporal gyrus and the middle occipital gyrus (MOG).
	cercor.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/9/5/415 (7262 words)

	The dynamics of shareability
		We identify different subtypes of number/colour synaesthesia and propose that they are caused by hyperconnectivity between colour and number areas at different stages in processing; lower synesthetes may have cross-wiring (or cross-activation) within the fusiform gyrus, whereas higher synesthetes may have cross-activation in the angular gyrus.
		The mutation may further be expressed selectively (due to transcription factors) in the fusiform or angular gyri, and this may explain the existence of different forms of synaesthesia.
		Ramachandran and Hubbard suggest this hypothesis because the fusiform gyrus hosts both the areas of color (V4 and V8) and the visual grapheme area, most specifically in the left hemisphere adjacent to V4.
	www.cecm.sfu.ca /~thalie/PhD/node12.html (786 words)

	MedFriendly.com: Fusiform
		Fusiform is a descriptive term for a structure that becomes smaller and smaller at each end, like a spindle.
		A spindle is a round stick used to form and twist yarn, which becomes smaller and smaller at each end.
		Fusiform comes from the Latin word "fusus" meaning "a spindle," and the Latin word "forma" meaning "form." Put the two words together and you have "a spindle form."
	www.medfriendly.com /fusiform.html (125 words)

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		Normal individuals, whose fusiform gyrus shows activation, look at the whole face and the relationship of features on a face," Aylward said.
		The fusiform gyrus was activated in the control subjects when they were exposed to faces and the inferior temporal gyrus, an area associated with objects, was activated when they looked at cars.
		The exception was a picture of the subject's mother, which activated the fusiform gyrus.
	www.uwnews.org /article.asp?articleID=1431 (764 words)

	Journal of Vision - Activation in fusiform gyrus is not correlated with face recognition: normal cortical activation ...
		Activation in fusiform gyrus is not correlated with face recognition: normal cortical activation with impaired face recognition in congenital prospagnosia
		Although there is general consensus that specific parts of the ventral temporo-occipital regions are consistently activated in functional imaging studies of face processing, it is still debatable whether this activation is sufficient for face recognition.
		We conclude that face-related activation in the fusiform gyrus is not sufficient for face recognition.
	journalofvision.org /2/7/562 (223 words)

	Selectivity for the Human Body in the Fusiform Gyrus -- Peelen and Downing 93 (1): 603 -- Journal of Neurophysiology
		in a region that may map to the fusiform gyrus in humans.
		Andrews TJ, Schluppeck D, Homfray D, Matthews P, and Blakemore C. Activity in the fusiform gyrus predicts conscious perception of Rubin's vase-face illusion.
		Kanwisher N, Stanley D, and Harris A. The fusiform face area is selective for faces not animals.
	jn.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/93/1/603 (3699 words)

	Fusiform Gyrus and Epilepsy: Abstract (Neurology - In Press 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fusiform Gyrus and Epilepsy: Abstract (Neurology - In Press 1997)
		Absence of normal activation of the left anterior fusiform gyrus during naming in left temporal lobe epilepsy.
		The left fusiform gyrus was activated in nine normal subjects, but only in two TLE patients (a difference significant at p
	www-personal.umich.edu /~gusb/epifusiform.html (101 words)

	Conference Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As faces are known to be processed more holistically than other visual objects (Tanaka and Farah, 1993), we hypothetised that activity in face-specific regions in the fusiform gyrus of human subjects should be modulated by processing either parts in whole faces, or whole stimuli.
		Within these well-defined face-specific regions, the right anterior fusiform gyrus was found to be more activated when matching whole faces than face parts while this pattern of activity was reversed in the left homologous region.
		The right fusiform posterior region was found to be face-specific only when part based processing on objects was used as baseline condition.
	cognet.mit.edu /library/conferences/paper?paper_id=4028 (223 words)

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		For example, “face” and “letter” areas have been described in the fusiform gyrus because these categories produce greater activation than other comparison conditions.
		Instead, much of the fusiform activation was explained by shared responses for letters, objects and visual noise stimuli relative to baseline, in line with a previous finding for face recognition
		Given that the extent of shared activation was greater than exclusive activation for any single category, we conclude that the fusiform gyrus is engaged in a more general process of visual recognition, rather than composed of specialized category-selective modules.
	www.mc.uky.edu /mrisc/j_PA16.asp (297 words)

	Brain study finds possible word center - portions of the fusiform gyrus Science News - Find Articles
		Two separate portions of the fusiform gyrus, a fold of tissue that runs lengthwise along the base of each side of the brain, showed distinctive electrical responses to patterns of letters.
		These two sections of the fusiform gyrus take part in a portion of the brain's visual system that specializes in word recognition, Nobre's team theorizes.
		The first site perceives separate letters in an array and meaningful arrangements of those letters, they propose; the second may form visual meanings of words or help retrieve memories of word meanings based on emotional qualities of a word or its context in a sentence.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n21_v146/ai_15951716 (651 words)

	Special training may help people with autism recognize faces
		The new study indicates that in people with autism the fusiform gyrus, a region in the brain's temporal lobe that is associated with face processing, has the potential to function normally, but may need special training to operate properly, according to University of Washington researchers Geraldine Dawson and Elizabeth Aylward.
		She said that in adults the fusiform gyrus is reliably activated in face processing, but it takes time for a child's brain wiring to become functional.
		In the study, which involved 11 adolescents and adults with autism and 10 age-matched controls, the subjects viewed pictures of cars and people's faces while the fMRI examined their patterns of brain activity.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-02/uow-stm020904.php (620 words)

	Journal of Vision - Separate face and body selectivity on the fusiform gyrus, by Schwarzlose, Baker, Yovel, & ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Recent findings of a high response to bodies in the fusiform face area (FFA) challenge the idea that the FFA is exclusively selective for face stimuli.
		We identified the FFA as the face-selective region on the fusiform gyrus with greater activation (p < 0.0001) for faces versus objects and an adjacent body-selective region with greater activation (p < 0.0001) for bodies versus objects (see also Peelen and Downing, 2004).
		These results demonstrate strong and exclusive selectivities in distinct but adjacent regions in the fusiform gyrus for only faces in one region and only bodies in the other.
	journalofvision.org /5/8/37 (470 words)

	Memory's echo: Vivid remembering reactivates sensory-specific cortex -- Wheeler et al. 97 (20): 11125 -- Proceedings of ...
		Recall of pictures was associated with activation in left fusiform gyrus (a and b: arrows).
		Regions in fusiform (a) and superior temporal (d) gyri (see Tables 1 and 2 for peak coordinates) associated with retrieval of pictures and sounds, respectively.
		Note that a certain level of positive response in fusiform gyrus to sound trials was expected because of the presence of visually presented labels during sound trials.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/97/20/11125 (4408 words)

	Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Abstract: Fusiform Gyrus Volume Reduction in First-Episode Schizophrenia: A Magnetic Resonance ...
		Arch Gen Psychiatry -- Abstract: Fusiform Gyrus Volume Reduction in First-Episode Schizophrenia: A Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study, September 2002, Lee et al.
		suggested that fusiform gyrus volume is reduced in schizophrenia,
		reduction in fusiform gyrus gray matter volume that is evident
	archpsyc.ama-assn.org /cgi/content/abstract/59/9/775 (257 words)

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