Face Recognition and Perception

Conscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of vision

This study investigates how little visual input is needed to detect direct gaze and whether it requires conscious awareness, finding that direct gaze influences perception faster than averted gaze.

Family Conflict and Parent-Child Similarity in Affective Valuation

The paper examines parent-child neural similarity in affective valuation and finds that higher family conflict is linked to lower similarity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

Robust neural face identity codes in the Super-Recogniser brain

This study compares neural face identity coding between Super-Recognisers and typical recognisers, finding stronger and more consistent identity representations in Super-Recognisers during mid-latency processing.

The congruency between anger intensity and reddish facial color modulates the early posterior negativity (EPN)

This study shows that reddish angry faces increase the EPN amplitude with higher emotion intensity compared to original and green faces.

Fusiform face area development correlates with development in higher-order social brain regions

This study examines the development of the fusiform face area (FFA) and its correlation with higher-order social brain regions in children using fMRI data.

Empathy and the Structural Representation of Facial Affect: Evidence from a Genetic-Algorithm Face Synthesis Task

This study investigates how empathy relates to the structural representation of facial affect by comparing face prototypes generated by participants with different empathy levels.

Person identity drives neural similarity more than action and valence during dynamic emotion perception

The paper investigates how brain responses to dynamic facial expressions are influenced by person identity, action, and valence, finding that identity is the strongest predictor of neural similarity.

Depression Severity Modulates the Cognitive Process of Facial Affect Representation: Evidence from a Genetic-Algorithm Face Synthesis Task

This study uses a genetic-algorithm face synthesis task to show that depression severity affects the cognitive process of facial affect representation, with At Risk participants showing faster convergence on embarrassment and greater instability in anger representations.

Beyond forced choice: hyper-realistic AI faces reveal a four-cluster perceptual geometry of emotion

This paper uses AI-generated facial expressions to explore emotion perception, revealing a four-cluster structure and autistic trait associations.

Faces and bodies are increasingly integrated along the visual hierarchy in humans and deep neural networks

This study compares face and body processing in humans and deep neural networks, finding both segregated and integrated representations across visual cortex regions.

Experience shapes infants' electrophysiological responses to faces from 3 to 9 months

The study examines how infants' neural responses to faces change with age and experience, showing differences in brain activity for familiar and unfamiliar social groups.

Prior scene context reshapes feature reliance during rapid perception

The paper shows that prior scene context influences rapid face detection by shifting reliance from sensory input to spatial expectations.

Self-supervised learning yields representational signatures of category-selective cortex

This study shows that self-supervised learning in neural networks can replicate human category-selective brain regions' representational signatures.

Behavioral evidence challenges species-specific ocular morphology as a primary constraint on human gaze-following

The paper shows humans can follow eye-gaze cues from both human and rhesus monkey avatars equally well, challenging the idea that ocular morphology limits gaze-following ability.

Face in the facade: How face-likeness modulates memory and neural representations

The paper investigates how face-likeness affects memory and neural representations, finding that non-face-like houses are better remembered and that representational reliability in the FFA correlates with memory performance.

Separating error from bias: A new framework for facial age estimation in humans and AIs

This paper introduces a new framework to address bias in facial age estimation by humans and AIs, revealing methodological shortcomings in existing approaches.

Neural oscillatory dynamics reveal altered top-down and integrative mechanisms during face processing in autistic children and unaffected siblings of autistic children

The paper examines neural oscillatory dynamics during face processing in autistic children and their unaffected siblings, finding altered theta and gamma activity suggesting differences in neural synchronization.

From Face to Person: Disentangling the Neural Origins of the N170, N250, and SFE in Familiar Face Recognition

The paper investigates how different types of information (visual, identity, semantic) drive ERP components (N170, N250, SFE) in familiar face recognition using a sequential familiarization paradigm.

A shared neural code for gender across faces, bodies, and objects in the human brain

The paper identifies a shared neural representation for gender across faces, bodies, and objects in the human brain, highlighting a region in the right middle temporal gyrus that encodes gender independently of stimulus category.

Behavioural separation of face memory and face perception

The paper develops a novel task to disentangle face perception and memory, finding they operate independently under low demand but interact in complex conditions through strategic shifts in processing.

Task demands dynamically structure feature selection, routing, and integration in the human brain

The paper shows how task demands dynamically structure feature selection, routing, and integration in the human brain using dynamic faces and MEG data.

Face-like holistic Processing in Non-Face Stimuli

This study shows that holistic processing occurs when stimuli rely on configural information, not featural cues, and correlates with face recognition ability.

Visual Emotion Perception in a Deep Neural Network Model with Both Bottom-Up and Top-Down Connections

This paper introduces EmoFB, a deep neural network model that simulates emotional perception by integrating top-down feedback signals, showing improved recognition and alignment with human brain responses.

Low-Dimensional Frontal Feedback Resolves High-Dimensional Visual Ambiguity in Human Visual Cortex

The paper investigates how low-dimensional frontal feedback resolves visual ambiguity in the human brain using fMRI, EEG, and computational models.

Rapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex

The paper shows that face cells in macaque IT cortex switch from a general code to a face-specific code within 20 ms to enable fine face discrimination.

Predicting Individualized Functional Topography in Developmental Prosopagnosia

This study uses hyperalignment to estimate individualized functional topographies in developmental prosopagnosia without localizer scans, showing high fidelity and cross-group generalization.

Distinct visual pathways of threat retrieval in fear-conditioned faces

This study investigates how threat-relevance modulates early visual processing and autonomic responses to faces, finding distinct roles for magnocellular pathways and conscious anticipation.

Diverse Visual Experience Promotes Integrated and Human-Aligned Face Representations in Deep Neural Networks

This study shows that exposing deep neural networks to diverse facial groups reduces bias and improves cross-group face recognition, aligning with human behavior.

Gaze and perception covary with reading direction

The paper shows that reading direction influences left-side perceptual bias and gaze patterns in face matching tasks.

Shared Neural Codes for Emotion Recognition in Emoji and Human Faces

This study investigates neural dynamics for emotion recognition in real faces and emojis, finding overlapping spatio-temporal codes for both.