Face Recognition and Perception

Prolonged and distributed processing of facial identity in the human brain

This study investigates the spatio-temporal dynamics of facial identity processing in the human brain using combined fMRI and EEG data, revealing prolonged and distributed neural activity.

Cortical recycling in high-level visual cortex during childhood development

The paper shows that during childhood, face- and word-selective regions in the ventral temporal cortex expand while limb-selective regions shrink, indicating cortical recycling of function.

Ketamine disrupts gaze patterns during face viewing in the common marmoset

This study examines how ketamine affects gaze patterns during face viewing in marmosets, finding disrupted scan paths but limited motor control effects.

A new behavioral and neural marker of social vision

The paper investigates how the brain processes minimal social scenes of two face-to-face bodies, finding specialized neural and behavioral markers similar to face perception.

Multiple adjoining word and face selective regions in ventral temporal cortex exhibit distinct dynamics

This study maps word- and face-selective regions in human ventral temporal cortex using intracranial recordings and fMRI, revealing distinct temporal dynamics and spatial organization.

Separated and overlapping neural coding of face and body identity

This study investigates how face and body identity are encoded in the brain, finding that both are represented abstractly across multiple regions and that attention enhances identity decoding.

The face module emerged in a deep convolutional neural network selectively deprived of face experience

This study shows that a deep convolutional neural network deprived of face experience still develops face-selective modules, suggesting domain-specificity can emerge without genetic predisposition.

Face identity selectivity in the deep neural network and human brain

This study compares identity-selective neurons in a deep neural network and human brain to understand face identity encoding.

Temporal Dynamics of Neural Processing of Facial Expressions and Emotions

The paper investigates the temporal dynamics of processing happy and sad facial expressions, finding faster processing of happy emotions and increased amplitude for sad emotions when viewed from the right side.

Inhibition of the occipital face area modulates the electrophysiological signals of face familiarity positively: a combined cTBS-EEG study

This study uses cTBS and EEG to show that inhibiting the right OFA increases electrophysiological differences between familiar and unfamiliar faces, suggesting a causal role in face recognition.

Explaining face representation in the primate brain using different computational models

The paper compares computational models for explaining neural responses to face images in the primate brain, finding the active appearance model and CORnet-Z perform best.

Rapid neural representations of personally relevant faces

This study uses EEG-fMRI to show that neural representations of personally relevant faces begin before structural encoding at 100ms, involving visual and prefrontal regions.

Spatial relations trigger visual binding of people

The paper investigates how spatial relationships between bodies affect visual perception, finding that face-to-face positioning enhances neural grouping of bodies.

Intranasal oxytocin modulates very early visual processing of emotional faces

This study investigates how nasal oxytocin affects early and late visual processing of emotional faces using electrophysiological measures.

Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections

The paper shows that spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective brain regions differ, with ventral regions focused on the fovea and lateral regions extending peripherally, linked to distinct white matter connections.

An eye gaze-modulated neural source highly impaired in autism spectrum disorder

The paper identifies a neural signal in the superior temporal sulcus modulated by eye gaze that is impaired in autism spectrum disorder.

The neural code for face memory

This study investigates how familiar faces are encoded in the brain, finding that they are represented in a distinct long-latency code in IT and perirhinal cortex that enhances discrimination.

Limited metacognitive access to one's own facial expressions

The paper assesses metacognitive access to facial expressions by analyzing confidence ratings and objective performance in young adults.

Modulation of early level EEG signatures by distributed facial emotion cues

The paper investigates whether facial emotion cues modulate early EEG components like N170, P100, and P250 during face recognition, finding that non-neutral expressions affect N170 and P250 amplitudes but not P100.

Perceptual difficulty modulates the direction of information flow in familiar face recognition

This study shows that perceptual difficulty and familiarity level influence neural information flow direction in face recognition, with feed-forward dominance for familiar faces and top-down flow when recognition is harder.

Rapid neural categorization of facelike objects predicts the perceptual awareness of a face (face pareidolia)

The paper uses EEG to show that neural responses to facelike objects predict conscious face perception, with stronger responses in those who report seeing illusory faces.

Implementation-independent representation for deep convolutional neural networks and humans in processing faces

This study compares internal representations of human observers and a deep convolutional neural network in gender classification tasks, finding similar representations at low spatial frequencies.

Color tuning of neurons in face patches of macaque inferior temporal cortex

The paper measures color-tuning responses of face-selective neurons in macaques and finds significant color tuning biased towards L>M colors and alignment with S-cone cardinal axis.

Neural correlates of beauty retouching to enhance attractiveness of self-depictions in women

The paper investigates how neural activity in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala changes with varying levels of beauty retouching in women's self-depictions.

FFA and OFA encode distinct types of face identity information

The paper uses fMRI and representational similarity analysis to show that FFA encodes higher-level face identity information, while OFA encodes low-level image properties.

Face-selective units in human ventral temporal cortex reactivate during free recall

The paper identifies face-selective neurons in human ventral temporal cortex that reactivate during free recall of faces, suggesting a role in memory retrieval.

The self-face captures attention without consciousness: evidence from the N2pc ERP component analysis

The paper investigates whether self-face processing is automatic or controlled by analyzing the N2pc ERP component in conscious and unconscious conditions.

Gene-environment interactions in face categorisation: experience with a nanny and oxytocin receptor genotype interact to reduce face categorization reaction times

This study finds a gene-environment interaction where oxytocin receptor genotype and nanny experience influence face categorization reaction times in adults.

Clarifying the role of higher-level cortices in resolving perceptual ambiguity using ultra high field fMRI

This study uses ultra-high field fMRI to show that higher-level cortices modulate perceptual ambiguity and that the right inferior-temporal lobe encodes trial-by-trial variability in face perception.

Anatomical correlates of face patches in macaque inferotemporal cortex

The paper identifies anatomical landmarks in macaque inferotemporal cortex that predict the location of face-selective regions, showing these features are present across species but not sufficient for face selectivity.