Greater activation of the ________ occurs when a person views pictures of people from his or her own race as opposed to pictures of people from other racial groups
a. temporal cortex
b. corpus callosum
c. lateral nuclei of the amygdala
d. fusiform face area
e. dorsal-ventral extrastriate cortex
Answer: d. fusiform face area
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