ArticleNature communications2024
Prediction error processing and sharpening of expected information across the face-processing hierarchy.
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- Evidence for early and late prediction error-associated ERP responses during probabilistic cueing.iScience · 2026Article
- Spatial and Sequential Organization of Gaze During Facial Expression Recognition Tasks.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Review
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- Sensory sharpening and semantic prediction errors unify competing models of predictive processing in human speech comprehension.PLoS biology · 2026Article
- Early electrophysiological responses reflect precision-weighted prediction errors to face features.PloS one · 2026Article
- Expectations guide predictive eye movements and information sampling during face recognition.iScience · 2024Article
- Context-dependent neural preparation for information relevance vs. probability.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
The perception and neural processing of sensory information are strongly influenced by prior expectations. The integration of prior and sensory information can manifest through distinct underlying mechanisms: focusing on unexpected input, denoted as prediction error (PE) processing, or amplifying anticipated information via sharpened representation. In this study, we employed computational modeling using deep neural networks combined with representational similarity analyses of fMRI data to investigate these two processes during face perception. Participants were cued to see face images, some generated by morphing two faces, leading to ambiguity in face identity. We show that expected faces were identified faster and perception of ambiguous faces was shifted towards priors. Multivariate analyses uncovered evidence for PE processing across and beyond the face-processing hierarchy from the occipital face area (OFA), via the fusiform face area, to the anterior temporal lobe, and suggest sharpened representations in the OFA. Our findings support the proposition that the brain represents faces grounded in prior expectations.
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