Face Recognition and Perception

The Role of the Eyes: Investigating Face Cognition Mechanisms Using Machine Learning and Partial Face Stimuli

This paper uses machine learning to investigate face cognition mechanisms with partial face stimuli, finding that the eyes are the most effective component for cognitive processing.

TMS disruption of the lateral prefrontal cortex increases neural activity in the default mode network when naming facial expressions

This study shows that TMS over the right PFC increases DMN activity during facial expression naming, highlighting interactions between face processing and default mode networks.

A large-scale brain network of species-specific dynamic human body perception

This study identifies a brain network specific to human body perception using fMRI and ICA analysis, showing species selectivity in key regions.

Face processing in the infant brain after pandemic lockdown

The paper examines how pandemic lockdowns affected infant face processing by comparing neural responses in pre- and post-lockdown infants using fMRI.

Characterizing top-down microcircuitry of complex human behavior across different levels of the visual hierarchy

The paper uses ultra-high field fMRI to study task-related top-down modulations in human visual areas across cortical layers, finding layer-specific patterns in V1 and FFA.

ERPs responses to dominance features from human faces

This study uses ERPs to show that facial dominance evaluation occurs late in processing, with LPP amplitudes differing for high and low dominance faces compared to neutral.

Deep learning models of perceptual expertise support a domain-specific account

This study uses deep learning models to show that domain-specific computations are better for fine-grained classification than domain-general ones.

Infants' attention to eyes is an independent, heritable trait predicting later verbal competence

The paper assesses eye preference in infants and finds it is heritable and predicts later verbal competence.

Face Familiarity Revealed by Fixational Eye Movements and Fixation-Related Potentials in Free Viewing

The paper investigates whether fixation-related potentials (FRPs) and microsaccade inhibition (OMI) in free viewing are sensitive to face familiarity, finding that familiar faces elicit smaller N1 and shorter OMI compared to unfamiliar faces.

Functionally and structurally distinct fusiform face area(s) in over 1000 participants

The paper identifies two functionally and structurally distinct fusiform face-selective regions in the human brain using data from over 1000 participants.

Brief report: Attentional Bias towards Social Interactions during Viewing of Naturalistic Scenes

The paper examines attentional bias towards social interactions in naturalistic scenes, finding that social elements attract more attention in interactive scenes than non-interactive ones.

Now you see it: fixation-related electrical potentials during a free visual search task reveal the timing of visual awareness

The paper investigates the timing of visual awareness by analyzing fixation-related potentials during a free visual search task, finding that awareness emerges around 130 ms and emotion processing requires awareness.

The influence of familiarity on the neural coding of face sex

This study investigates how familiarity affects neural coding of face sex, finding categorical encoding in frontal regions for familiar faces and physical encoding in occipital regions regardless of familiarity.

Effects of Face Repetition on Ventral Visual Stream Connectivity using Dynamic Causal Modelling of fMRI data

This study uses dynamic causal modelling of fMRI data to investigate how face repetition affects connectivity in the ventral visual stream, finding that repetition effects are best explained by changes in between-region connections rather than local activity.

Deep learning algorithms reveal a new visual-semantic representation of familiar faces in human perception and memory

This study shows that combining visual and semantic information improves predictions of human face recognition in memory, suggesting a new visual-semantic representation in human perception.

No Semantic Information is Necessary to Evoke General Neural Signatures of Face Familiarity - Evidence from Cross-Experiment Classification

The paper shows that neural patterns of face familiarity can be decoded without semantic or affective information, using EEG data from two different tasks.

Inability to make facial expressions dampens emotion perception.

This study investigates emotion perception in individuals with Moebius Syndrome, finding reduced sensitivity to facial expressions despite normal perceptual control tasks.

Top-down modulation and cortical-AMG/HPC interaction in familiar face processing

The paper investigates how top-down modulation and interactions between cortical areas and AMG/HPC contribute to the enhanced processing of familiar faces.

Cascades of neuronal plasticity in the macaque visual cortex

The paper tracks neuronal adaptation in macaque visual cortex over weeks of exposure to novel faces, finding cell-specific time constants governed by testing days, not stimulus exposures.

Characterizing the shared signals of face familiarity: long-term acquaintance, voluntary control, and concealed knowledge

The paper investigates the spatio-temporal dynamics of a shared face familiarity signal in EEG data across different task conditions and exposure types.

Layer-specific, retinotopically-diffuse modulation in human visual cortex by emotional faces

This study investigates how emotional faces modulate human visual cortex, finding layer-specific and retinotopically diffuse effects consistent with amygdala feedback.

Measuring the response to visually presented faces in the human lateral prefrontal cortex

The paper compares the functional response of face-selective areas in the lateral prefrontal cortex to other face-selective areas using neuroimaging experiments.

Face dissimilarity judgements are predicted by representational distance in morphable and image-computable models

The paper shows that Euclidean distance in a 3D morphable face model predicts human face dissimilarity and identity judgements as well as deep neural networks.

Dissociation of early and late face-related processes in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams syndrome

The paper investigates neural processing of facial cues in Williams syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder using EEG, finding dissociable impairments in early and late face-related processes.

A neuronal social trait space for first impressions in the human amygdala and hippocampus

The paper identifies a neuronal social trait space in the human amygdala and hippocampus that encodes social traits during first impressions.

Single-cell foundations of live social gaze interaction in the prefrontal cortex and amygdala

The paper examines neural responses in macaque brain regions during social gaze interactions, identifying single-cell representations of social gaze functionalities.

Neural and computational processes of accelerated perceptual awareness and decisions: A 7T fMRI Study

This study uses fMRI and computational modeling to show that fearful faces are perceived faster than neutral faces, involving accelerated evidence accumulation in fronto-parietal and visual areas.

The role of oxytocin in modulating self-other distinction brain: a pharmacological fMRI study

This study investigates how oxytocin affects self-other distinction in facial perception using fMRI, finding increased neural activity in specific brain regions for self-morphed faces in the oxytocin group.

Localized and Distributed Representations of Person Knowledge for Faces

This paper uses fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis to determine whether person-knowledge for faces is localized or distributed, finding that unique information for person-knowledge is in vATL and mid-fusiform but only vATL represents explicit recall.

Emerged human-like facial expression representation in a deep convolutional neural network

The paper shows that deep convolutional neural networks trained for facial identity recognition develop expression-selective units with human-like perception characteristics when exposed to facial expressions.