Faces and bodies are often perceived together allowing humans to identify if an individual is familiar or not. Despite this almost simultaneous perception it is important to establish that they are processed by different structures, and thus perceived separately. This has been established as being distinct to the selectivity pattern of the region involved in the processing of faces. It has been proposed that this distinction between face recognition and<unk>  recognition is due to bodies providing contextual input to ambiguous stimuli which are later able to be perceived together as a whole. The FBA is involved in the visual processing of the human<unk>  in contrast to<unk>  parts, providing us with a holistic image of the human<unk> . This provides a functional dissociation between the EBA and the FBA as they are uniquely involved in the perception of distinct aspects of the human<unk> . The FBA is capable of distinguishing bodies from other object kinds, such as human-like stick figures . In 2011 a study examining the meaning of actions through context integration proposed that the FBA is involved in a social context network (SCN) which update and associate individual specific information relating to episodic memory and target-context connections. However, due to activation in the FBA not being able to fully explain the integration of contextual information, the significance of this is still under investigation.
Fusiform body area
Postcentral sulcus
Periaqueductal gray
Periventricular nucleus
Watershed area 
Reticulotegmental nucleus
Lentiform nucleus
Piriform cortex