Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact

Palermo, Romina; Rhodes, Gillian

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.025

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“…However in both tasks it is unlikely that the evidence supports the notion that faces 'pop out' or that they are processed pre-attentively due to the time to first face fixation. For Task 1 it took typically developing participants on average over 1000msec to fixate upon the faces, suggesting that they are not processed pre-attentively but that attention is directed to this region in a systematic manner (see Palermo & Rhodes, 2007). Therefore for the participants tested here faces did capture attention across tasks but further research is warranted to understand the role of attention allocation in this process.…”

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Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

Riby

Hancock

2008

J Autism Dev Disord

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Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

Riby

Hancock

2008

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Consequently, the processing of emotional facial expressions is presumed to be mediated by evolutionary hard-wired, extremely rapid neural mechanisms (see, e.g., Palermo & Rhodes, 2007, for a review).…”

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Look on the bright side: Positivity bias modulates interference effects in the simon task.

Schlaghecken

Blagrove

Mantantzis

et al. 2017

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Negative faces are detected more quickly but categorized more slowly than positive faces.Using a Simon task, we examined stimulus-and response-related processes of this dissociation: if negative stimuli are both processed and responded to more quickly than positive ones, they should elicit reduced Simon effects. Conversely, if negative stimuli are processed more quickly but responded to more slowly, enlarged Simon effects should occur.Consistent with the first possibility, negative stimuli showed reduced Simon effects.Unexpectedly, this reduction transferred to neutral stimuli (arrows and pointing hands) requiring the same response as negative faces. This pattern suggests that spatial attention became biased toward the side associated with a positive-face response and away from the side associated with a negative-face response, demonstrating that, similar to higher level cognitive decision processes, even early attentional processes can be subject to a positivity bias ("Pollyanna effect").

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“…American crow | cognition | facial recognition | [F-18]fluorodeoxyglucose-PET imaging | learned fear A variety of species are able to discriminate between human faces (1)(2)(3), and this ability appears to be linked to neural integration of perception, emotion, and memory. Brain imaging studies have revealed that humans use a core recognition system in their sensory cortex (the posterior superior temporal sulcus, the inferior occipital gyrus, and the fusiform gyrus) networked with two extended systems that convey the historical (anterior paracingulate, posterior superior temporal sulcus/temporoparietal junction, anterior temporal cortex, precuneus, and posterior cingulate) and emotional (amygdala, insula, and striatum) significance of the person (4).…”

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Brain imaging reveals neuronal circuitry underlying the crow’s perception of human faces

Marzluff¹,

Miyaoka

Minoshima

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Crows pay close attention to people and can remember specific faces for several years after a single encounter. In mammals, including humans, faces are evaluated by an integrated neural system involving the sensory cortex, limbic system, and striatum. Here we test the hypothesis that birds use a similar system by providing an imaging analysis of an awake, wild animal's brain as it performs an adaptive, complex cognitive task. We show that in vivo imaging of crow brain activity during exposure to familiar human faces previously associated with either capture (threatening) or caretaking (caring) activated several brain regions that allow birds to discriminate, associate, and remember visual stimuli, including the rostral hyperpallium, nidopallium, mesopallium, and lateral striatum. Perception of threatening faces activated circuitry including amygdalar, thalamic, and brainstem regions, known in humans and other vertebrates to be related to emotion, motivation, and conditioned fear learning. In contrast, perception of caring faces activated motivation and striatal regions. In our experiments and in nature, when perceiving a threatening face, crows froze and fixed their gaze (decreased blink rate), which was associated with activation of brain regions known in birds to regulate perception, attention, fear, and escape behavior. These findings indicate that, similar to humans, crows use sophisticated visual sensory systems to recognize faces and modulate behavioral responses by integrating visual information with expectation and emotion. Our approach has wide applicability and potential to improve our understanding of the neural basis for animal behavior.A variety of species are able to discriminate between human faces (1-3), and this ability appears to be linked to neural integration of perception, emotion, and memory. Brain imaging studies have revealed that humans use a core recognition system in their sensory cortex (the posterior superior temporal sulcus, the inferior occipital gyrus, and the fusiform gyrus) networked with two extended systems that convey the historical (anterior paracingulate, posterior superior temporal sulcus/temporoparietal junction, anterior temporal cortex, precuneus, and posterior cingulate) and emotional (amygdala, insula, and striatum) significance of the person (4). This network of brain regions that perceive and analyze faces is informed by ventral and dorsal visual pathways-the ventral enabling fine discrimination and the dorsal providing rapid, but coarse, emotional assessment (3). Brain mapping investigations on other species capable of human recognition are extremely limited; however, electrophysiological recordings in the visual cortex of domestic sheep and nonhuman primates have indicated the presence of neurons that respond to human facial information (5).We demonstrated previously that free-ranging American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) discriminate among humans based on facial characteristics, but we could only speculate on the neural basis for this behavior (1, 6). Because bi...

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Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact

Cited by 554 publications

References 198 publications

Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

Do Faces Capture the Attention of Individuals with Williams Syndrome or Autism? Evidence from Tracking Eye Movements

Look on the bright side: Positivity bias modulates interference effects in the simon task.

Brain imaging reveals neuronal circuitry underlying the crow’s perception of human faces

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