Task modulation of brain activity related to familiar and unfamiliar face processing: an ERP study

Rossion, Bruno; Campanella, Salvatore; Gómez, Carlos; Delinte, A; Debatisse, D.; Liard, Laura; Dubois, S.; Bruyer, Raymond; Crommelinck, Marc; Guérit, Jean‐Michel

doi:10.1016/s1388-2457(98)00037-6

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“…Reports with adults have suggested the N170 is: (1) affected by repetition (Caharel et al, 2002;Itier & Taylor, 2004;Jemel et al, 2003); (2) not affected by stimulus repetition (e.g., Begleiter, Porjesz & Wang, 1995;Schweinberger. Pfutze & Sommer, 1995;Schweinberger, Pickering, Jentzsch, Burton, & Kaufman 2002); and (3) not affected by familiarity (e.g., Bentin & Deouell, 2000;Eimer, 2000;Rossion et al, 1999). However, a later component, the N250 has been shown to be manipulated by familiarity and repetition (Schweinberger et al, 2002).…”

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ERP Evidence of Atypical Face Processing in Young Children with Autism

Webb

Dawson

Bernier

et al. 2006

J Autism Dev Disord

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Autism involves a basic impairment in social cognition. This study investigated early stage face processing in young children with autism by examining the face-sensitive early negative eventrelated brain potential component in 3-4 year old children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), typical development, and developmental delay. Results indicated that children with ASD showed a slower electrical brain response to faces and a larger amplitude response to objects compared to children with typical development and developmental delay. These findings indicate that children with ASD have a disordered pattern of brain responses to faces and objects at an early age.

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ERP Evidence of Atypical Face Processing in Young Children with Autism

Webb

Dawson

Bernier

et al. 2006

J Autism Dev Disord

163

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“…Studies have suggested the involvement of the fusiform gyrus (e.g. Itier & Taylor, 2002;Rossion et al, 1999), the Superior Temporal Sulcus (e.g. ) and the Inferior Occipital Gyrus, or their combination, as potential generators of the N170 (for a review see Rossion & Jacques, 2012).…”

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Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach

Neath-Tavares

Itier

2016

Biological Psychology

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Research suggests an important role of the eyes and mouth for discriminating facial expressions of emotion. A gaze-contingent procedure was used to test the impact of fixation to facial features on the neural response to fearful, happy and neutral facial expressions in an emotion discrimination (Exp.1) and an oddball detection (Exp.2) task. The N170 was the only eye-sensitive ERP component, and this sensitivity did not vary across facial expressions. In both tasks, compared to neutral faces, responses to happy expressions were seen as early as 100-120ms occipitally, while responses to fearful expressions started around 150ms, on or after the N170, at both occipital and lateral-posterior sites. Analyses of scalp topographies revealed different distributions of these two emotion effects across most of the epoch. Emotion processing interacted with fixation location at different times between tasks. Results suggest a role of both the eyes and mouth in the neural processing of fearful expressions and of the mouth in the processing of happy expressions, before 350ms.

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“…A host of studies have shown the strong sensitivity of N170 to human faces, as reflected by larger amplitude to faces than a variety of objects (Bentin et al, 1996;Eimer, 2000;Itier et al, 2006;Rossion et al, 1999), whether the stimulus is a schematic, sketch, painting, drawing or photograph of a human face (Sagiv and Bentin, 2001), or a twotone Mooney figure perceived as a face (George et al, 2005;Latinus and Taylor, 2005). The N170 is generally viewed as a marker of the encoding stage of the face structure (Eimer, 2000;Rossion et al, 1999), when the perceptual representation of a face is being created, although its sensitivity to identity is still actively debated (e.g.…”

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“…The N170 is generally viewed as a marker of the encoding stage of the face structure (Eimer, 2000;Rossion et al, 1999), when the perceptual representation of a face is being created, although its sensitivity to identity is still actively debated (e.g. Caharel et al, 2009;Heisz and Shedden, 2009;Schweinberger., in press, 2010).…”

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Species sensitivity of early face and eye processing

2011

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Humans are better at recognizing human faces than faces of other species. However, it is unclear whether this species sensitivity can be seen at early perceptual stages of face processing and whether it involves species sensitivity for important facial features like the eyes. These questions were addressed by comparing the modulations of the N170 ERP component to faces, eyes and eyeless faces of humans, apes, cats and dogs, presented upright and inverted. Although all faces and isolated eyes yielded larger responses than the control object category (houses), the N170 was shorter and smaller to human than animal faces and larger to human than animal eyes. Most importantly, while the classic inversion effect was found for human faces, animal faces yielded no inversion effect or an opposite inversion effect, as seen for objects, suggesting a different neural process involved for humans faces compared to faces of other species. Thus, in addition to its general face and eye categorical sensitivity, the N170 appears particularly sensitive to the human species for both faces and eyes. The results are discussed in the context of a recent model of the N170 response involving face and eye sensitive neurons (Itier et al., 2007) where the eyes play a central role in face perception. The data support the intuitive idea that eyes are what make animal head fronts look face-like and that proficiency for the human species involves visual expertise for the human eyes.

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Task modulation of brain activity related to familiar and unfamiliar face processing: an ERP study

Cited by 163 publications

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ERP Evidence of Atypical Face Processing in Young Children with Autism

ERP Evidence of Atypical Face Processing in Young Children with Autism

Neural processing of fearful and happy facial expressions during emotion-relevant and emotion-irrelevant tasks: A fixation-to-feature approach

Species sensitivity of early face and eye processing

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