Face Recognition and Perception

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 investigates how the brain processes a dyad of humans in close positioning using EEG frequency tagging, finding that holistic perception emerges when humans are upright but not for non-human objects.

This study investigates how conscious awareness affects pupillary responses to faces using continuous flash suppression, finding that pupillary constriction correlates with face processing entering consciousness.

This study uses intracranial recordings to show that individual face and word representations in human ventral temporal cortex start in domain-selective areas and later involve distributed regions.

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.

The paper records single-neuron activity in the human occipital face area (OFA) and finds face selectivity at short latencies, suggesting OFA is not strictly tuned to typical facial features.

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.

This study uses sequential Bayesian analysis to examine if face-specific neural responses relate to cognitive empathy or age, finding no significant associations.

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 that threatening faces are better remembered than non-threatening ones after 1.5 years, with differential neural encoding in specific brain regions.

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.

The paper investigates how amygdala activity integrates contextual cues with facial expressions to determine valence, finding that amygdalostriatal coupling supports positive but not negative affective integration.

The paper investigates how dynamic facial expressions are perceptually encoded across species, finding that face dynamics are represented independently of facial shape.

Adding a wiring-length penalty to object-recognition training makes model inferior-temporal layers grow face-selective units, face patches, inter-patch connectivity and viewpoint invariance, but only under naturalistic training input.

This study shows that lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) causally supports metacognitive awareness of emotional face orientation but not emotional expression.

The paper investigates how specific movement features, particularly limb contraction, relate to brain processes involved in fear perception using representational similarity and multi-voxel pattern analysis.

This study uses intracranial recordings to show that repetition suppression in human ventral temporal cortex occurs in high-frequency broadband signals and persists throughout stimulus processing.

The paper investigates the sensory thresholds for two face recognition functions—generic and familiar face recognition—and finds that generic recognition requires less sensory input and is more consistent across individuals.

The paper investigates nonconscious face perception by comparing face and object breakthrough times under suppression and finds curvilinearity, not category, drives the behavioral advantage.

The paper investigates how a shared culture influences social perception of in-group and out-group members using fMRI, finding that shared cultural contexts activate similar brain networks for same and different-race faces.

The paper examines how ERP components respond to robot faces, finding intermediate neural responses compared to human faces and non-face objects, and partial face inversion effects in robot faces.

The paper investigates how brain networks process temporal information in dynamic facial expressions using fMRI and DCM analysis, identifying distinct roles for local and global motion processing.

This study uses a reverse correlation paradigm to show that visual information processed at different times during a fixation affects neural responses and behavior, with some differences linked to the N170 ERP component.