ReviewAnnual review of neuroscience2016
Face Processing Systems: From Neurons to Real-World Social Perception.
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- Sampling characteristics in the mean emotion processing of multiple faces.Psychological research · 2026Article
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- Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Separating early and intermediate vision EEG signatures of facial emotion recognition in a fast divided attention task to eye and mouth features.Frontiers in cognition · 2026Article
- Linking social attention to reproductive state and future reproduction in female monkeys.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2026Article
- Neural synchrony links sensorimotor cortices in a network for facial motor control.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Binocular cues to 3D face structure increase activation in depth-selective visual cortex with negligible effects in face-selective areas.Journal of vision · 2025Article
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- Neural encoding of real world face perception.ArXiv · 2025Article
- Fast face-selective responses in prefrontal face patches of the macaque.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the spatial interference effects elicited by social and non-social targets: A conditional accuracy function approach.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2025Article
- Visual Attention and Cardiac Response to Faces in Relation to Emotion Recognition.Journal of psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Inferotemporal face patches are histo-architectonically distinct.Cell reports · 2024Article
- Linking faces to social cognition: The temporal pole as a potential social switch.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Disentangled deep generative models reveal coding principles of the human face processing network.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Configuration-sensitive face-body interactions in primate visual cortex.Progress in neurobiology · 2024Article
- Theta activity discriminates high-level, species-specific body processes.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Animacy processing by distributed and interconnected networks in the temporal cortex of monkeys.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided into a ventral stream and a dorsal stream, and the functional similarities of the areas in humans and macaques indicate they are homologous. Neural correlates for face detection, holistic processing, face space, and other key properties of human face processing have been identified at the single neuron level, and studies providing causal evidence have established firmly that face-selective brain areas are central to face processing. These mechanisms give rise to our highly accurate familiar face recognition but also to our error-prone performance with unfamiliar faces. This limitation of the face system has important implications for consequential situations such as eyewitness identification and policing.
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