Face Recognition and Perception

The first comprehensive case study of early-emerging prosopometamorphopsia

This paper presents the first comprehensive case study of early-emerging prosopometamorphopsia, detailing its clinical manifestations and neural correlates.

Eye gaze is not inversion-proof: A robust, sex-invariant gaze inversion effect

The paper investigates how face inversion affects sensitivity to gaze direction, finding a robust inversion effect that is largely sex-invariant.

Behavioral characterization of dynamic facial expression perception in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) using naturalistic and synthetic stimuli

This study shows rhesus monkeys can categorize facial expressions and generalize to novel stimuli, with performance influenced by expression components and signaler characteristics.

Selective encoding failure of self-face identity in subthreshold depression

This study investigates whether subthreshold depression involves a selective deficit in encoding self-face identity, finding a specific impairment in incidentally encoding self-face identity compared to other-faces.

Facial Expressions of Emotion are Infrequent in Toddlers' and Caregivers' Egocentric Views: An Ecological Study

This study quantifies emotional facial expressions in toddlers' and caregivers' egocentric views, finding sparse and biased positive expressions in toddlers' perspectives.

Concurrent category-selective neural activity across the ventral occipito-temporal cortex supports a non-hierarchical view of human visual recognition

The paper challenges the hierarchical model of visual recognition by showing concurrent category-selective neural activity across the ventral occipito-temporal cortex.

The Influence of Spatial Frequencies, Orientation and Familiarity on Face Stimuli Integration

This paper investigates how spatial frequency and orientation affect face recognition, finding that holistic processing depends on task and familiarity, challenging the foundational role of low spatial frequency information.

STEMorph: A Set of Morphed Emotional Face Stimuli from Angry to Happy Derived from NimStim

STEMorph creates a validated set of morphed emotional faces from angry to happy to study emotion recognition biases, showing strong correlation between morph levels and perceived emotion intensity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Detection of idiosyncratic gaze fingerprint signatures in humans

This study identifies a unique gaze fingerprint in humans that can be reliably detected across different stimuli and timeframes, with associations to autistic traits.

The representation of facial emotion expands from sensory to prefrontal cortex with development

The study shows that facial emotion processing shifts from sensory areas to prefrontal cortex with age, using intracranial EEG data from children and adults.

Flexible perception of face attributes under naturalistic visual constraints

This study investigates how the brain adapts face perception to naturalistic visual constraints by analyzing EEG responses to varying blur and exposure times.

It matters who you are: Biography modulates the neural dynamics of facial identity representation

This study shows that person-related biographical knowledge modulates the timing and strength of face identity representations in the brain.

Evidence for dimensional representations and anticipatory dynamics in facial expression perception

The paper decodes dynamic facial expressions from EEG data, revealing valence and arousal dimensions and anticipatory neural dynamics.

Context-dependent hierarchical categorization of human faces: Behavioral and EEG/MEG evidence

The paper investigates context-dependent hierarchical categorization of faces using behavioral and EEG/MEG data, revealing distinct neural mechanisms for species versus race-based categorization.

Sensory encoding of emotion conveyed by the face and visual context

The paper uses artificial neural networks to model fMRI data and shows that the pSTS encodes facial expressions more robustly than the amygdala, while both regions encode visual context.

Shared and individual tuning curves for social perception

The paper characterizes individual and group-level thresholds for social perception using parameterizable stimuli and finds unique, stable tuning curves linked to socio-affective traits.

Gyral crowns contribute to the cortical infrastructure of human face processing

The paper examines the relationship between gyral crown height and face-selective regions in the fusiform gyrus, finding reduced crown height correlates with impaired face recognition in developmental prosopagnosia and replicates this in a large neurotypical sample.

Dynamic face-related eye movement representations in the human ventral pathway

The paper shows dynamic face-related eye movement representations in the ventral pathway during gaze tracking without image perception.

The Origin of Cognitive Modules for Face Processing: A Computational Evolutionary Perspective

This paper introduces a computational model to study the emergence of cognitive modules, finding that a face-processing module arises due to structural constraints rather than task demands.

Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates

The paper uses facial expressions in mice to identify latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates, showing that facial features reflect computations beyond task demands.

Mapping Macaque to Human Cortex with Natural Scene Responses

The paper maps functional correspondence between macaque and human cortex using natural scene responses, resolving ambiguities in cross-species alignment.

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.

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.