Credit: Bevil R. Conway, Wellesley College, used with permission.
A child’s face, the upper portion of the photograph is in black-and-white and the lower portion is in color. The image graphically represents the essential findings of the paper, which show that the face-processing system has a strong achromatic luminance bias, while color processing is handled by discrete zones of object cortex adjacent, and yoked, to face patches. The orientation of the image, with the achromatic portion on the top and the colored portion on the bottom, matches the spatial configuration in inferior temporal cortex of the parallel face-processing and color-processing channels.