Face Recognition and Perception

The paper shows that during childhood, face- and word-selective regions in the ventral temporal cortex expand while limb-selective regions shrink, indicating cortical recycling of function.

This study examines how ketamine affects gaze patterns during face viewing in marmosets, finding disrupted scan paths but limited motor control effects.

This study maps word- and face-selective regions in human ventral temporal cortex using intracranial recordings and fMRI, revealing distinct temporal dynamics and spatial organization.

This study investigates how face and body identity are encoded in the brain, finding that both are represented abstractly across multiple regions and that attention enhances identity decoding.

This study shows that a deep convolutional neural network deprived of face experience still develops face-selective modules, suggesting domain-specificity can emerge without genetic predisposition.

This study uses cTBS and EEG to show that inhibiting the right OFA increases electrophysiological differences between familiar and unfamiliar faces, suggesting a causal role in face recognition.

The paper compares computational models for explaining neural responses to face images in the primate brain, finding the active appearance model and CORnet-Z perform best.

This study uses EEG-fMRI to show that neural representations of personally relevant faces begin before structural encoding at 100ms, involving visual and prefrontal regions.

The paper investigates how spatial relationships between bodies affect visual perception, finding that face-to-face positioning enhances neural grouping of bodies.

The paper shows that spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective brain regions differ, with ventral regions focused on the fovea and lateral regions extending peripherally, linked to distinct white matter connections.

This study shows that perceptual difficulty and familiarity level influence neural information flow direction in face recognition, with feed-forward dominance for familiar faces and top-down flow when recognition is harder.

The paper uses EEG to show that neural responses to facelike objects predict conscious face perception, with stronger responses in those who report seeing illusory faces.

This study compares internal representations of human observers and a deep convolutional neural network in gender classification tasks, finding similar representations at low spatial frequencies.

The paper measures color-tuning responses of face-selective neurons in macaques and finds significant color tuning biased towards L>M colors and alignment with S-cone cardinal axis.

The paper investigates how neural activity in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala changes with varying levels of beauty retouching in women's self-depictions.

The paper uses fMRI and representational similarity analysis to show that FFA encodes higher-level face identity information, while OFA encodes low-level image properties.

The paper identifies face-selective neurons in human ventral temporal cortex that reactivate during free recall of faces, suggesting a role in memory retrieval.

The paper investigates whether self-face processing is automatic or controlled by analyzing the N2pc ERP component in conscious and unconscious conditions.

This study uses ultra-high field fMRI to show that higher-level cortices modulate perceptual ambiguity and that the right inferior-temporal lobe encodes trial-by-trial variability in face perception.

The paper identifies anatomical landmarks in macaque inferotemporal cortex that predict the location of face-selective regions, showing these features are present across species but not sufficient for face selectivity.

The paper describes and shares an fMRI dataset from 25 subjects watching 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', focusing on social interactions and face processing.

The paper examines neural and behavioral responses to happy, fearful, and angry faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants, finding similar patterns despite age differences.

This study examines how the brain processes visual and social relationship information over time using EEG and RSA, finding that social information is represented in neural patterns shortly after face perception.

This study uses EEG and time-resolved representational similarity analysis to show that facial attractiveness representations emerge within 150-200ms and are individually specific and not explained by other face attributes.

This study identifies face-selective patches in the frontal cortex of marmosets, suggesting a conserved neural network for social face processing across primate lineages.

The paper shows that maternal odor reduces neural responses to fearful faces in seven-month-old infants, suggesting it modulates social perception.

The paper shows face-selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus of congenitally blind individuals through haptic exploration, indicating visual experience is not required for this selectivity.

The paper uses pattern recognition to show that observing and displaying facial expressions activate similar neural patterns, supporting the embodied emotion recognition model.

The paper shows that repetition suppression in the Fusiform Face Area is inflated by differences in stimulus predictability between repeated and alternating trials.

This study investigates how familiarity affects the categorical boundaries in face recognition by mixing familiar and unfamiliar faces, finding that familiarity narrows the boundary for familiar faces.