Face Recognition and Perception

Beyond Static Models: The Dynamic Interplay of Facial Emotions and Attentional Scope

This study shows emotional stimuli affect attention over time, with different patterns for neutral, happy, and threat faces, challenging fixed-effect assumptions about emotion-attention interactions.

Gaze and Arrows: does the Gaze Following Patch in the posterior temporal cortex differentiate social and symbolic spatial cues?

This study investigates whether the Gaze Following Patch (GFP) in the posterior temporal cortex differentiates between social gaze cues and symbolic spatial cues like arrows, finding no such differentiation.

Cortical Face-Selective Responses Emerge Early in Human Infancy

The paper investigates when face-selective cortical responses emerge in infants, finding early selectivity in FFA, STS, and MPFC but not OFA in young infants.

Perceptual similarity judgments reflect one's own discrimination capacities

The paper shows that perceptual similarity judgments are linked to an individual's discrimination capacities, with similarity reflecting their ability to discern stimuli.

Robust memory of face moral values is encoded in the human caudate tail: A simultaneous EEG-fMRI study

The paper investigates how moral value judgments of faces are encoded in the brain using EEG-fMRI, finding that the left caudate tail encodes these memories without involving the fusiform face area.

The Interplay of Prior Information and Motion Cues in Resolving Visual Ambiguity in Agent Perception

This study investigates how prior knowledge and motion cues interact to influence the temporal dynamics of agent perception using EEG and RSA.

Investigating the neural effects of typicality and predictability for face and object stimuli

This study investigates the neural effects of typicality and predictability on face and object stimuli using fMRI, finding no interaction between predictability and typicality in key brain regions.

Face-selective cortical regions inherit thevisuospatial organisation of early visual cortex

The paper shows that face-selective brain regions share spatial sampling patterns with early visual cortex, supporting a hierarchical model of visuospatial organization in face recognition.

Visual periodicity reveals distinct attentional signatures for face and non-face categories

The paper uses visual periodicity to show that attention to faces has distinct neural processing patterns compared to non-face categories.

The resolution of face perception varies systematically across the visual field

This study shows that face perception acuity varies systematically across the visual field, mirroring patterns seen in low-level visual processing.

Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making

The paper shows that perceptual decisions about threat in facial displays are prioritized in neural coding, with earlier motor-related predictions for emotional stimuli than non-emotional ones.

Spatial modulation of facial expression: enhanced recognition of faces behind the observer

This study shows that facial expression recognition is enhanced when faces are behind the observer, with anger being more detectable than happiness, suggesting a threat detection mechanism.

Learning of the same task subserved by substantially different mechanisms between patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder and healthy individuals

The paper compares neuronal mechanisms of learning a visual task between patients with body dysmorphic disorder and healthy individuals, finding substantial differences in brain activation patterns.

Neural computations in prosopagnosia

This study identifies neural computations underlying face identification loss in a prosopagnosia patient using EEG, RSA, and deep neural networks, revealing impaired high-level visual and semantic processing.

Emergence of brain-like mirror-symmetric viewpoint tuning in convolutional neural networks

This paper shows that mirror-symmetric viewpoint tuning emerges in convolutional neural networks trained on object recognition tasks, even without face-specific training, and explains its mechanism through reflection-equivariant representations.

Individual-specific memory reinstatement patterns within human face-selective cortex

The paper examines individual differences in memory reinstatement patterns in human face-selective cortex during encoding and retrieval.

Neural correlates of individual facial recognition in a social wasp

The paper identifies a localized population of neurons in social wasps that are specifically tuned to wasp faces, analogous to face cells in primates.

Deep convolutional neural network with face identity recognition experience exhibits brain-like neural representations of personality traits

This study shows that a convolutional neural network with face identity recognition experience generates brain-like neural representations of personality traits, unlike networks without such experience.

Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study

This study uses fMRI to investigate brain networks involved in attributing social status from face adornments, identifying key regions and their interactions.

A unifying model for discordant and concordant results in human neuroimaging studies of facial viewpoint selectivity

The paper presents a network model that explains both concordant and discordant results in human neuroimaging studies of facial viewpoint selectivity by incorporating biological constraints and analyzing low-level stimulus biases.

Decoding face recognition abilities in the human brain

The paper decodes face recognition abilities from brain activity in super-recognisers and typical recognisers using multivariate pattern analysis and compares them to computational models.

Awareness is determined by emotion and gender

The paper investigates how emotion and gender influence awareness using visual masking and body images, finding that threatening expressions are more detectable, especially by males viewing male stimuli.

Disentangled deep generative models reveal coding principles of the human face processing network

The paper introduces disentangled deep generative models to interpret human face processing brain activity and finds interpretable latent dimensions that align with fMRI data and a gradient of face feature representation.

Neonatal Amygdala Mean Diffusivity: A Potential Predictor of Emotional Face Perception

This study examines the relationship between neonatal amygdala microstructure and attention to emotional faces, finding a negative association between amygdala mean diffusivity and disengagement from fearful faces.

(Micro)saccade-related potentials during face recognition: A study combining EEG, eye-tracking, and deconvolution modeling

This study combines EEG, eye-tracking, and deconvolution modeling to analyze brain responses during face recognition, finding that microsaccades do not carry emotional content information.

Differential and temporally dynamic involvement of primate amygdala nuclei in face animacy and reward information processing

The paper investigates how neurons in different amygdala nuclei encode face animacy and reward information during decision-making in macaques.

Inactivation of face selective neurons alters eye movements when free viewing faces

This study shows that inactivating face-selective neurons in the inferior temporal cortex alters eye movement patterns during free viewing of faces.

Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions

The paper demonstrates that left EBA activity causally supports efficient visual perception of social interactions through fMRI, behavioral, and TMS experiments.

Distrust Before First Sight? Examining Knowledge- and Appearance-Based Effects of Trustworthiness on the Visual Consciousness of Faces

This study investigates how affective knowledge and facial appearance influence visual awareness of faces using EEG, finding enhanced awareness for faces linked to negative social information but not facial trustworthiness.

Longitudinal development of category representations in ventral temporal cortex predicts word and face recognition

The paper tracks how distributed category representations in ventral temporal cortex develop over time and links these changes to individual differences in word and face recognition.