Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces

M Ramon, MI Gobbini - Visual Cognition, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this review, we synthesize the existing literature investigating personally familiar face
processing and highlight the remarkable, enhanced processing efficiency resulting from real …

[HTML][HTML] The anterior fusiform gyrus: The ghost in the cortical face machine

B Rossion, C Jacques, J Jonas - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Face-selective regions in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex (VOTC) have been
defined for decades mainly with functional magnetic resonance imaging. This face-selective …

A fast link between face perception and memory in the temporal pole

SM Landi, P Viswanathan, S Serene, WA Freiwald - Science, 2021 - science.org
The question of how the brain recognizes the faces of familiar individuals has been
important throughout the history of neuroscience. Cells linking visual processing to person …

Single neuron responses underlying face recognition in the human midfusiform face-selective cortex

R Quian Quiroga, M Boscaglia, J Jonas… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Faces are critical for social interactions and their recognition constitutes one of the most
important and challenging functions of the human brain. While neurons responding …

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 …

Two areas for familiar face recognition in the primate brain

SM Landi, WA Freiwald - Science, 2017 - science.org
Familiarity alters face recognition: Familiar faces are recognized more accurately than
unfamiliar ones and under difficult viewing conditions when unfamiliar face recognition fails …

Getting to know someone: Familiarity, person recognition, and identification in the human brain

G Kovács - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In our everyday life, we continuously get to know people, dominantly through their faces.
Several neuroscientific experiments showed that familiarization changes the behavioral …

The neural representation of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces in the distributed system for face perception

M Visconti di Oleggio Castello, YO Halchenko… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Personally familiar faces are processed more robustly and efficiently than unfamiliar faces.
The human face processing system comprises a core system that analyzes the visual …

Getting to know you: Emerging neural representations during face familiarization

GG Ambrus, CM Eick, D Kaiser… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
The successful recognition of familiar persons is critical for social interactions. Despite
extensive research on the neural representations of familiar faces, we know little about how …

Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part II: Neural basis

B Rossion - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Patient PS sustained her dramatic brain injury thirty years ago, in 1992, the same year as the
first report of a neuroimaging study of human face recognition. The present paper …