[2] Saade-Sergent was considered a top scientist in her field, until she was anonymously accused of violating research ethics.
[5] This processing area was later named by Nancy Kanwisher in 1997,[6] who proposed that the existence of the FFA is evidence for domain specificity in the visual system.
She was accused of failing to get approval from an ethics committee for her research on the brain function of pianists.
In 1993, Johnston reprimanded Saade-Sergent for her failure to report this slight change in stimuli in her experiments to the ethics committee.
The letter attempted to further discredit Saade-Sergent by linking her research conduct to the case of a Dr. Roger Poisson of St. Luc Hospital.
The weekend after this article was published, Saade-Sergent and her husband were found dead in their garage from carbon monoxide poisoning.