As a highly social species, humans are equipped with a powerful tool for social
communication—the face. Although seemingly simple, the human face can elicit multiple …

Understanding the mechanisms and consequences of attributing socialness to artificial
agents has important implications for how we can use technology to lead more productive …

To behave adaptively with sufficient flexibility, biological organisms must cognize beyond
immediate reaction to a physically present stimulus. For this, humans use visual mental …

The human brain is specialized for face processing, yet we sometimes perceive illusory
faces in objects. It is unknown whether these natural errors of face detection originate from a …

Face pareidolia is the illusory perception of non-existent faces. The present study, for the first
time, contrasted behavioral and neural responses of face pareidolia with those of letter …

Visual imagery is a form of sensory imagination, involving subjective experiences typically
described as similar to perception, but which occur in the absence of corresponding external …

The strongest connections to V1 are fed back from neighbouring area V2 and from a network
of higher cortical areas (eg V3, V5, LOC, IPS and A1), transmitting the results of cognitive …

Emotional communication relies on a mutual understanding, between expresser and viewer,
of facial configurations that broadcast specific emotions. However, we do not know whether …

Everyone has their own unique version of the visual world and there has been growing
interest in understanding the way that personality shapes one's perception. Here, we …

People make rapid and consequential social judgments from minimal (non-emotional) facial
cues. There has been rapid progress in identifying the perceptual basis of these judgments …