Face Recognition and Perception

Getting to Know You: Neural Representations of Other People Grow More Perceiver-Specific Over Time

The paper tracks how neural representations of familiar peers change over time in high school students, finding they become more individualized as people get to know each other.

Overlooked neuroanatomical markers of face processing and developmental prosopagnosia in posteromedial cortex

The paper identifies a sulcal network in the posteromedial cortex associated with face processing and finds structural differences between neurotypical individuals and those with developmental prosopagnosia.

Opposite Priming Effects on Identity vs. Category Recognition Require Conscious Awareness

The paper investigates how conscious and unconscious priming affect identity and category recognition, finding that conscious awareness is required for priming to have opposite effects on these recognition levels.

From ambiguous object to illusory faces: EEG decoding reveals a dynamic cascade of face pareidolia

The paper uses EEG and computational methods to show that face pareidolia involves a dynamic neural cascade integrating global and local visual features over time.

Investigating saccade-onset locked EEG signatures of face perception during free-viewing in a naturalistic virtual environment

The paper investigates EEG signatures of face perception during free-viewing in VR, finding that saccade-onset ERPs provide more precise measurements than fixation-onset ERPs.

Representational geometry of emotional empathy in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and in the mid-posterior insula.

The paper investigates how brain regions encode emotional facial expressions using representational similarity analysis, finding that vmPFC and mid-posterior insula encode emotion categories and arousal+valence better than arousal alone.

Facial expression discrimination emerges from neural subspaces shared with detection and identity

The paper shows that neural subspaces in the macaque inferior temporal cortex shared with face identity also support facial expression discrimination, revealing a unified coding framework for social signals.

Pre-conscious reactions to faces as the biological roots of emotion perception

The paper investigates whether physiological responses to emotional faces require conscious recognition, finding subconscious responses to fearful and happy faces and links to social traits.

EEG decodability of facial expressions and their stereoscopic depth cues in immersive virtual reality

This study uses EEG and immersive VR to show that facial expressions can be decoded reliably in 3D space, with depth cues having a distinct neural signature but not affecting expression decoding.

Electrophysiological decoding captures the temporal trajectory of face categorization in infants

This study uses electrophysiological decoding to show that preverbal infants can categorize faces rapidly, but not individuate them, as evidenced by neural activity around 200 milliseconds after stimulus onset.

Developmental prosopagnosics have normal spatial integration in posterior ventral face-selective regions

This study examines pRF properties in developmental prosopagnosics and controls, finding similar pRF characteristics despite facial recognition deficits.

Dynamic facial trustworthiness perception in real-time social contexts

This study investigates how trustworthiness is perceived in real-time social interactions using EEG data from a deception game, finding dynamic hemispheric lateralization in phase activities.

Autosuggestion and Mental Imagery Bias the Perception of Social Emotions

The paper investigates how autosuggestion and mental imagery influence the perception of facial emotions, finding both induce a bias toward the desired emotion, with autosuggestion showing stronger support.

Serial Dependence in face-gender classification revealed in low-beta frequency EEG

The paper shows that face-gender classification in EEG exhibits serial dependence, with neural signals in beta frequencies (14-20 Hz) reflecting past perceptual experiences.

Preliminary Evidence for Anxiety-Linked Neural Sensitivity to Emotional Faces Using Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation

This study uses FPVS to show that individuals with anxiety-related traits have stronger neural responses to angry and sad faces, suggesting enduring differences in emotion processing linked to anxiety vulnerability.

Decoding the sex of faces using the power, phase, and the Fourier spectrum of the time-frequency representation

This study decodes facial sex from EEG time-frequency representations, finding distinct time-frequency windows for familiar and less familiar faces.

Concurrent emergence of view invariance, sensitivity to critical features, and identity face classification through visual experience: Insights from deep learning algorithms

This study shows that increasing face image diversity during training improves deep networks' view invariance, sensitivity to critical facial features, and classification performance.

Recognizability affects the processing of facial sex information

The paper investigates how facial recognizability affects cortical processing of sex information, finding that experimental paradigms influence decoding accuracy and cortical patterns.

The Brain Computes Dynamic Facial Movements for Emotion Categorization Using a Third Pathway

The paper identifies a functional social pathway in the brain that computes dynamic facial movements for emotion categorization using MEG data and representational interaction measures.

Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus

The paper shows that some neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus encode face identities based on shared visual features rather than invariant semantic concepts.

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Invariant Face Representations in the Human Brain

This study investigates how the brain processes face identity, age, and gender across time and space using MEG data, revealing temporal hierarchies and task-dependent modulation.

Neonatal White Matter Microstructure Predicts Infant Attention Disengagement from Fearful Faces

The paper links neonatal white matter microstructure to attention disengagement from fearful faces in infants using diffusion MRI and eye tracking.

Integration of head and body orientations in the macaque superior temporal sulcus is stronger for upright bodies

The paper investigates how macaque superior temporal sulcus neurons integrate head and body orientations, finding stronger integration for upright bodies.

Alignment of human behavior, brain, and AI models in the high-level valence processing of complex social scenes

The paper investigates how human and AI models process emotional valence in complex social scenes, finding that higher-level processing is required when valence conflicts with visual features.

A network of face patches in human prefrontal cortex for social processing of faces

The paper identifies four frontal face patches in the human prefrontal cortex involved in social processing of faces using fMRI and functional connectivity analysis.

Category-preferring patches in human orbitofrontal cortex

The paper identifies category-preferring patches in the human orbitofrontal cortex using fMRI, showing similar organization and function to the ventral occipitotemporal cortex.

A neurocomputational basis of face recognition changes in ASD: E/I balance, internal noise, and weak neural representations

This study uses CNN models to simulate face recognition in ASD, showing that E/I imbalance and internal noise lead to poorer performance and atypical neural representations.

Boosting forward connectivity between primary visual and body selective cortex reduces interference between sex and emotion judgements of bodies

The paper investigates how boosting forward connectivity between visual and body-selective cortex affects interference between sex and emotion judgments, finding that it eliminates sex interference on emotion judgments.

A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment

The paper shows that upright human silhouettes are more detectable than inverted ones in an inattentional blindness task, suggesting a visual bias for upright human forms.

Dynamic vs. Static Facial Color Changes: Evidence for Terminal Color Dominance in Expression Recognition

This study examines how dynamic vs. static facial color changes affect emotion perception, finding that final reddish color, not dynamics, influences anger perception.