Face Recognition and Perception

Eye contact in active and passive viewing: event-related brain potential evidence from a combined eye tracking and EEG study

The paper compares brain responses to gaze direction during passive viewing and active eye contact, finding similar N170 and P300 effects, and shows emotional expressions influence N170 but not early posterior negativity.

Dual-site TMS demonstrates causal functional connectivity between the left and right posterior temporal sulci during facial expression recognition.

This study uses dual-site TMS to show that disrupting both left and right posterior temporal sulci impairs facial expression recognition more than disrupting only the right sulcus.

Face Selective Neural Activity: Comparison Between Fixed and Free Viewing

This study compares face-selective neural activity during free and cued viewing using ERPs and FRPs, finding the N170 face effect is present in both but with category-specific adaptation in free viewing.

Combined neural tuning in human ventral temporal cortex resolves perceptual ambiguity

The paper shows that combining neural responses from face- and body-selective regions in VTC better predicts categorization performance than individual regions, suggesting integration of information across domains.

Evidence for face selectivity in early vision

The paper challenges the standard hierarchical visual processing model by showing face selectivity in early visual areas through eye tracking, fMRI, and EEG experiments.

Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing

The paper presents a neurally plausible model for efficiently inverting generative models of images, specifically testing its application in face perception.

All-or-none visual categorization in the human brain

The paper investigates whether visual categorization is graded or all-or-none in the human brain using EEG and behavioral measures, finding all-or-none responses despite graded neural amplitudes.

Thickness of deep layers in the fusiform face area predicts face recognition

The paper finds that face recognition ability is negatively correlated with the thickness of deep cortical layers in the fusiform face area, while vehicle recognition is positively correlated with cortical thickness across all layers.

Developmental changes in the processing of faces as revealed by EEG decoding

This study uses EEG decoding to show that face processing neural profiles emerge early in childhood and refine with age, supporting early functional maturation and ongoing specialization.

CNN explains tuning properties of anterior, but not middle, face-processing areas in macaque IT

The paper investigates if CNNs match tuning properties of macaque face-processing areas, finding similarity in anterior areas but not middle areas.

Fast temporal dynamics and causal relevance of face processing in the human temporal cortex

The paper examines fast temporal dynamics of face processing in the human temporal cortex using intracranial recordings and identifies key sites involved in face perception.

Post-saccadic face processing is modulated by pre-saccadic preview: Evidence from fixation-related potentials

The paper investigates how pre-saccadic preview of faces affects post-saccadic neural processing using fixation-related potentials, finding reduced N170 responses with preview.

Decoding of the other’s focus of attention by a temporal cortex module

The paper identifies a neural module in the posterior temporal cortex that flexibly links another's gaze direction to objects of interest, facilitating joint attention.

Spatio-temporal dynamics of face perception

This study combines fMRI and EEG data with computational models to show how face perception evolves over time and across brain regions, finding early visual processing and later emotional expression decoding.

Normal observers show no evidence for blindsight in facial emotion perception

This study investigates whether normal observers can perceive facial emotions unconsciously, finding no evidence of blindsight-like behavior in emotion discrimination.

Can processing of face trustworthiness bypass early visual cortex? A transcranial magnetic stimulation masking study

This study investigates whether face trustworthiness processing bypasses early visual cortex using TMS, finding that conscious perception relies on EVC while forced-choice judgments may not.

Decoding of emotion expression in the face, body and voice reveals sensory modality specific representations.

The paper investigates whether emotional expressions from faces, bodies, and voices are represented as abstract categories or sensory-specific representations in the brain using fMRI and multivariate analysis.

Neurophysiological Substrates of Configural Face Perception in Schizotypy

This study examines how schizotypy in healthy individuals relates to neurophysiological face perception by analyzing ERP components and reaction times.

The Fusiform Gyrus Processes Faces Relative to an Overall Face Average and a Person Average

The paper investigates how the brain processes face identity by comparing face similarity to an overall face average and a person average, revealing hemispheric differences in encoding face-likeness and person-likeness.

Spontaneous generation of face recognition in untrained deep neural networks

This study shows face-selective neurons can emerge spontaneously in deep neural networks without training, exhibiting viewpoint-invariant properties similar to those in primates.

The representation of two-body shapes in the human visual cortex

The paper shows that human visual cortex encodes spatial relations between bodies, with specific sensitivity to facing vs. non-facing configurations, affecting body perception and representation.

Delayed suppression normalizes face identity responses in the primate brain

The paper shows that delayed suppression in primate face patches enhances sensitivity to facial identity features through predictive normalization.

The effect of facial expression on contrast sensitivity: a behavioural investigation and extension of Hedger, Garner, & Adams (2015).

This study investigates whether facial expressions affect contrast sensitivity by testing visual contrast thresholds and effective contrast in fear versus other expressions.

Prediction-error signals to violated expectations about person identity and head orientation are doubly-dissociated across the dorsal and ventral visual streams

The paper identifies double dissociations in prediction-error signals for face identity and head orientation violations in dorsal and ventral visual streams using MEG.

Layer-specific ultra-high field 7T fMRI showing that threat anticipation is mediated by the pulvinar input to the superficial layers of primary visual cortex (V1)

The paper uses 7T fMRI to show pulvinar input to V1 superficial layers mediates threat anticipation, not just threat perception.

The Ontogenetic Development of Hemispheric Lateralization During Face Processing: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Pilot Study in 7- to 9-Year-old Children

This paper presents a pilot fMRI study in children and adults to develop a paradigm for assessing face processing lateralization and estimate sample sizes for future studies.

Late ERP amplitude for self-face perception positively associated with heartbeat perception accuracy

The paper finds a positive correlation between late ERP amplitude for self-face perception and heartbeat perception accuracy in specific brain regions.

Shared neural codes for eye-gaze and valence

The paper investigates neural coding for eye-gaze and valence in monkeys, finding shared circuits and coding mechanisms between gaze and reward/punishment signals.

Neural Mediators of Altered Perceptual Choice and Confidence Using Social Information

The paper investigates how social cues influence perceptual decisions and confidence, finding that neural activity in the frontal cortex mediates this effect, particularly in response to conflicting cues.

Faces and voices in the brain: a modality-general person-identity representation in superior temporal sulcus

The paper investigates whether the brain has modality-general person-identity representations and finds evidence for such representations in the right posterior superior temporal sulcus using fMRI and RSA.