Extrastriate body area

Extrastriate body area
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Part ofExtrastriate cortex
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The extrastriate body area (EBA) is a subpart of the extrastriate visual cortex involved in the visual perception of human body and body parts, akin in its respective domain to the fusiform face area, involved in the perception of human faces. The EBA was identified in 2001 by the team of Nancy Kanwisher using fMRI.[1]

  1. ^ Downing, Paul E.; Jiang, Yuhong; Shuman, Miles; Kanwisher, Nancy (September 28, 2001). "A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body". Science. 293 (5539): 2470–2473. Bibcode:2001Sci...293.2470D. doi:10.1126/science.1063414. PMID 11577239. S2CID 1564641.