Face perception is thought to be mediated by neural activity in the occipital and posterior temporal cortex. 1,2 However, the face-selective neurons at the cellular level in these areas in humans have never been demonstrated. We had a rare opportunity to record intracranial multiunit activity in an epilepsy patient near the fusiform face area 2 (figure 1A). We identified 2 units with highly face-selective response to static images of familiar (famous) and unfamiliar faces (figure 1B and video 1; figure e-1a, doi.org/10.5061/dryad.81t0fq1) as well as to human and animal faces that appeared in a movie (figure 1C, video 1, figure e-1b). Author contributions V. Axelrod: conceiving the study, designing and preparing the experiments, analyzing the data, writing, editing and revising the manuscript. C. Rozier: data acquisition. T.S. Malkinson: data acquisition, editing the manuscript. K. Lehongre: responsibility for intracranial recording infrastructure, editing the manuscript. C. Adam: responsibility for intracranial recording infrastructure. V. Lambrecq: responsibility for intracranial recording infrastructure, editing the manuscript. V. Navarro: responsibility for intracranial recording infrastructure, editing the manuscript. L. Naccache: conceiving the study, supervising the project, editing the manuscript.
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