Face Recognition and Perception

Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition

This study examines the relationship between personality traits, experience, and the own-gender bias in face recognition, finding direct links between extraversion, Autism Quotient, and the bias.

Neural correlates of experience with CCTV surveillance of naturalistic prosocial and antisocial interactions: a reverse correlation analysis

This study uses reverse correlation to examine how brain activity in experts and novices correlates with visual features in CCTV footage of prosocial and antisocial interactions.

Effects of individuation and grouping on face representations in the visual cortex

This study investigates how top-down control between individuation and grouping affects face representations in the visual cortex using fMRI.

Emotion Modulation of the Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain

The paper uses fMRI to study brain activity in children, adolescents, and adults while viewing emotional body movements, finding no age differences in emotion modulation of body-selective areas.

Brain Responsivity to Emotional Faces Differs in Alcoholic Men and Women

This study examines how gender differences affect brain responsivity to emotional faces in alcoholic and nonalcoholic individuals, finding distinct neural activation patterns between genders and alcoholism status.

Multifaceted integration - memory for faces is subserved by widespread connections between visual, memory, social and auditory networks

The paper investigates how face memory relies on connections between visual, memory, social, and auditory networks, finding it is specific to faces and not other objects.

Feature-specific prediction errors for visual mismatch

The paper tests predictive coding theory by showing that different visual features elicit distinct prediction errors in specific brain regions during a visual mismatch task.

Decoding dynamic implicit and explicit representations of facial expressions of emotion from EEG

This study uses EEG decoding to compare how facial expression and identity are processed under explicit and implicit task contexts, finding differences in decoding patterns and task effects.

How face perception unfolds over time

This study investigates the time course of face perception by analyzing neural responses to faces and finds that gender and age information emerge before identity information, with familiar faces showing enhanced early processing.

Neural representations of faces are tuned to eye movements

The paper shows that facial features fixated longer during face recognition elicit stronger neural discrimination responses, indicating eye movements influence neural processing of face identity.

Cyborg Groups Enhance Face Recognition in Crowded Environments

This paper demonstrates that combining humans, brain-computer interfaces, and machine-vision algorithms in cyborg groups improves face recognition accuracy in crowded environments by up to 35%.

Dynamic representations of faces in the human ventral visual stream link visual features to behaviour

This study investigates rapid face processing by manipulating presentation duration and using MEG to show two stages of face perception linked to behavior.

Surprising threats accelerate evidence accumulation for conscious perception

The paper investigates how emotion and expectation interact in conscious perception by examining responses to neutral and fearful faces under different probability conditions using bCFS.

An afferent white matter pathway from the pulvinar to the amygdala facilitates fear recognition

The paper identifies a subcortical pathway from the pulvinar to the amygdala in humans that enhances fear recognition through increased fibre density and dynamic coupling.

Healthy ageing delays the neural processing of face features relevant for behaviour by 40 ms

The paper investigates how ageing delays neural processing of face features, showing a 40 ms delay in occipital-temporal pathway activity that correlates with slower behavioural responses.

The neural dynamics of familiar face recognition

This study uses EEG to show that face identity representations emerge gradually, becoming invariant to sex and image variations by 400ms after stimulus onset.

An Event-related Potential Comparison of Facial Expression Processing between Cartoon and Real Faces

This study compares neural and behavioral responses to cartoon and real faces using ERP and behavioral measures, finding differences in processing intensity, speed, and attentional allocation.

Affectively biased competition underlying sustained attention is tuned to rewarding expressions and is not modulated by norepinephrine receptor gene variant

The paper examines if individual differences in norepinephrine receptor function influence emotionally biased competition during sustained attention, finding no effect of the ADRA2B gene variant.

Configural properties underlie the perceived faceness of a stimulus

The paper defines 19 FOC features using analytical geometry and evaluates their contribution to perceived faceness in abstract stimuli through psychophysical experiments.

The neural representational space of social memory

The paper examines how the brain represents social relationships using fMRI and RSA, finding that neural similarity patterns in specific brain regions correlate with the accuracy of learning face pair relationships.

The role of meaning in visual memory: Face-selective brain activity predicts memory for ambiguous face stimuli

The paper shows that processing ambiguous images as meaningful (e.g., faces) predicts better memory, using EEG to identify this effect.

Fear Generalization as Threat Prediction: Adaptive Changes in Facial Exploration Strategies revealed by Fixation-Pattern Similarity Analysis

The paper investigates fear generalization by analyzing fixation patterns on faces, finding that threat prediction drives adaptive changes in visual exploration strategies.

Temporal expectations modulate face image repetition suppression as indexed by event-related potentials

The paper investigates how temporal expectations affect face image repetition suppression using event-related potentials, finding differing effects on early and late response components.

Previewing a face in the periphery reduces the fN170: Combined EEG and eye-tracking suggests two stages of trans-saccadic predictive processes

The paper uses EEG and eye-tracking to show that visual stability during saccades involves two stages: pre-saccadic prediction and early post-saccadic change detection, as evidenced by the fN170 response.

Money or smiles: Independent ERP effects of associated monetary reward and happy faces

The paper investigates ERP effects of happy faces and monetary reward, finding distinct processing stages for each, with reward effects emerging only after learning.

Deep Convolutional modeling of human face selective columns reveals their role in pictorial face representation

The paper shows that face-selective brain columns match deep convolutional networks in intermediate layers, suggesting a role in pictorial face representation rather than person identification.

Multimodal evidence on shape and surface information in individual face processing

This study uses image reconstruction to assess shape and surface information in face processing across behavioral, EEG, and fMRI data, finding surface information is better recovered and more cross-modal consistent.

Linking signal detection theory and encoding models to reveal independent neural representations from neuroimaging data

The paper develops a framework linking signal detection theory and encoding models to quantify perceptual separability of neural representations in neuroimaging data.

A cortical route for face-like pattern processing in human newborns

The paper shows that newborns have a cortical network for face processing that is active at birth, overlapping with the adult face-processing circuit.

Immediate stimulus repetition abolishes stimulus expectation and surprise effects in fast periodic visual oddball designs

The paper investigates how stimulus repetition and expectation interact in visual oddball designs, finding that immediate repetition abolishes expectation effects in EEG responses.