Social cues

Question 1

Occipital lobe

Answer 1

Analysis of facial features

Question 2

Ventral pathway

Answer 2

Fusiform gyrus, fusiform face area and inferior temporal cortex.

Discriminating faces from objects and link episodic and semantic memories in the hippo and ATL (base for face recog)

Question 3

Dorsal pathway

Answer 3

Superior temporal sulcus processes dynamic features. Relayed to amygdala to analyse,
multisensory areas for mouth moving with speech and parietal lobe to see spatial direction of the gaze.

Question 4

Parallel interaction of the streams

Answer 4

Both pathways interact and feed back into earlier stages to acquire more detail as needed

Question 5

Superior temporal sulcus

Answer 5

Has lot of connections with other parts of the brain.

Parietal: direct attention in response to observed gaze

Amygda and limbic: Recognizing emotions

Multisensory: integrating lip movement with speech