Face processing plays an important role in people’s social communication.The
performance that people identify faces by processing of visual information with the help of
expertise or illusion is a kind of top-down modulation in the studies of brain function.The
investigation of mechanism of face top-down modulation can greatly highlight the nature of
face processing and help to explore the specificity of the mechanism of face
processing.This paper introduces and summarizes the recent studies on face top-down
processing based on functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI),which includes the analysis
of regions of interest,the identification of neural network and the causal models for top-
down face processing.This paper also discusses the prospects of development of this field.
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