The N170 is sensitive to long-term (personal) familiarity of a face identity

S Caharel, B Rossion - Neuroscience, 2021 - Elsevier
The N170 is a large deflection of the human electroencephalogram (EEG), peaking at about
170 milliseconds over the occipito-temporal cortex after the sudden onset of a face stimulus …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation to understand the neural basis of human face identity recognition

J Jonas, B Rossion - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recognizing people's identity by their faces is a key function in the human species,
supported by regions of the ventral occipito‐temporal cortex (VOTC). In the last decade …

Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part I: Function

B Rossion - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Following traumatic brain injury in adulthood, Pierrette Sapey (PS) became suddenly unable
to recognize the identity of people from their faces. Thanks to her remarkable recovery of …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the right anterior fusiform gyrus impairs human face identity recognition

A Volfart, X Yan, L Maillard, S Colnat-Coulbois… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Brain regions located between the right fusiform face area (FFA) in the middle fusiform gyrus
and the temporal pole may play a critical role in human face identity recognition but their …

A neural marker of the human face identity familiarity effect

X Yan, A Volfart, B Rossion - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Human adults associate different views of an identity much better for familiar than for
unfamiliar faces. However, a robust and consistent neural index of this behavioral face …

Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the face-selective right lateral fusiform gyrus transiently impairs face identity recognition

A Volfart, B Rossion, X Yan, L Angelini, L Maillard… - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging and intracranial electrophysiological studies have consistently shown the
largest and most consistent face-selective neural activity in the middle portion of the human …

Familiarity is familiarity is familiarity: Event-related brain potentials reveal qualitatively similar representations of personally familiar and famous faces.

H Wiese, G Hobden, E Siilbek, V Martignac… - Journal of …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Humans excel in familiar face recognition, but often find it hard to make identity judgements
of unfamiliar faces. Understanding of the factors underlying the substantial benefits of …

A robust neural familiar face recognition response in a dynamic (periodic) stream of unfamiliar faces

X Yan, B Rossion - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an objective and sensitive approach to measure human familiar face recognition
(FFR) across variable facial identities. Twenty-six participants viewed sequences of natural …

Identity-specific neural responses to three categories of face familiarity (own, friend, stranger) using fast periodic visual stimulation

A Campbell, R Louw, E Michniak, JW Tanaka - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies have focused on the modulatory effects of face familiarity on different
components of an event-related potential (ERP), but there is controversy in the literature …

When a stranger becomes a friend: Measuring the neural correlates of real-world face familiarisation

A Campbell, JW Tanaka - Visual Cognition, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Humans can readily and effortlessly learn new faces encountered in the social environment.
As a face transitions from unfamiliar to familiar, the ability to generalize across different …