Face Recognition and Perception

The paper shows that newborns have a cortical network for face processing that is active at birth, overlapping with the adult face-processing circuit.

The paper investigates how stimulus repetition and expectation interact in visual oddball designs, finding that immediate repetition abolishes expectation effects in EEG responses.

The paper investigates whether holistic processing is necessary for early face recognition and finds that feature-based processing, particularly of eyes, can activate perceptual memory of familiar faces.

This study investigates retinotopic bias in face identity recognition, finding that familiarity reduces spatial variability in recognition responses across visual field locations.

The paper investigates how the brain processes social and emotional relevance in visual stimuli using ERP, finding early interactions between these dimensions.

This study investigates the neural mechanisms of facial emotion perception near the threshold using magnetoencephalography, finding distinct fronto-parietal network activity patterns for correct and incorrect recognition.

This study investigates how face typicality and affect (valence and arousal) influence emotional face processing using ERP and self-reported ratings in healthy adults.

The paper investigates the role of posterior and mid-fusiform regions in facial expression processing using intracranial recordings and multivariate analysis, revealing distinct temporal dynamics in their contribution to expression perception.

The paper evaluates the validity of the PI20 questionnaire by comparing it to an existing questionnaire and finds strong equivalence and unidimensionality.

This study investigates how stimulus size and orientation affect face decoding in monkey face-selective cortex, finding that responses are more tolerant to size changes than orientation changes.

The paper shows that implicit reward associations enhance neural processing of neutral faces, as evidenced by ERP components and pupil dilations, with gain associations having more impact than loss.

This study uses fMRI repetition suppression to test if face perception and theory-of-mind networks show sensitivity to trait judgments from faces, but finds no evidence of such sensitivity.

This study investigates face processing in the human brain using fMRI, finding that the pSTS-FA is more responsive to dynamic faces and changeable aspects, while FFA and OFA show similar responses across conditions.

The paper investigates how neurons in macaque IT cortex respond to multiple objects and finds that normalization with homogeneous category selectivity explains their responses.

The paper investigates sex-related differences in amygdala responses to facial threat cues, finding sex-specific functional and structural amygdala differences in processing fear and eye gaze.

The paper introduces FPS-fMRI, a method that improves signal-to-noise ratio and test-retest reliability in brain mapping by using fast periodic stimulation and Fourier analysis.

The paper investigates how emotional processing of stimuli affects subsequent neutral social stimuli processing, finding individual differences in affective biasing and memory.

This study examines brain oscillatory responses to fearful faces with direct or averted gaze during brief and longer exposures, showing exposure duration affects threat signal processing stages.

The paper examines how subliminal priming images' emotional valence and visual features affect conscious perception of facial expressions, finding that face-containing primes and egocentric vantage points influence recognition accuracy.

This study uses magnetoencephalography to investigate how the brain determines which level of facial stimulus content (identity vs. configuration) is consciously accessible, finding distinct neural dynamics for each level.

This study uses fMRI to show that the fusiform face area (FFA) represents illusory faces broadly, not finely tuned to visual features, revealing how category-selective regions process ambiguous visual input.

The paper investigates whether perceptual expectations modulate image repetition effects using ERPs and finds no statistical interaction between repetition effects and expectations.

This paper describes a case where intracerebral stimulation of the right lateral fusiform cortex induces facial identity hallucinations, suggesting its role in individual face representation.

The paper investigates whether configural face processing involves interactions between ventral and dorsal visual streams using TBS and fMRI, finding reduced ventral activity and connectivity during configural processing when dorsal regions are stimulated.

The paper shows that trait anxiety differentially affects processing of clear and ambiguous facial threat cues via M and P pathways, with lateralized amygdala reactivity.

The paper investigates holistic face processing in peripheral visual fields using face inversion effects and ERP components, finding robust inversion effects and right hemisphere lateralization.

The paper investigates how the brain processes crowd emotion versus individual face emotion, finding differential involvement of visual streams and hemispheres.

This study investigates how culture influences the perception of crowd emotion in Korean and American participants, finding differences in accuracy, speed, and hemispheric lateralization.

This study uses fMRI and multivariate pattern analysis to show that familiarity and face identity are represented in overlapping and distinct regions of the core and extended face processing systems.