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Rossion B. Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part II: Neural basis. Neuropsychologia 2022; 173:108279. [PMID: 35667496 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 04/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Patient PS sustained her dramatic brain injury in 1992, the same year as the first report of a neuroimaging study of human face recognition. The present paper complements the review on the functional nature of PS's prosopagnosia (part I), illustrating how her case study directly, i.e., through neuroimaging investigations of her brain structure and activity, but also indirectly, through neural studies performed on other clinical cases and neurotypical individuals, inspired and constrained neural models of human face recognition. In the dominant right hemisphere for face recognition in humans, PS's main lesion concerns (inputs to) the inferior occipital gyrus (IOG), in a region where face-selective activity is typically found in normal individuals ('Occipital Face Area', OFA). Her case study initially supported the criticality of this region for face identity recognition (FIR) and provided the impetus for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), intracerebral electrical stimulation, and cortical surgery studies that have generally supported this view. Despite PS's right IOG lesion, typical face-selectivity is found anteriorly in the middle portion of the fusiform gyrus, a hominoid structure (termed the right 'Fusiform Face Area', FFA) that is widely considered to be the most important region for human face recognition. This finding led to the original proposal of direct anatomico-functional connections from early visual cortices to the FFA, bypassing the IOG/OFA (lulu), a hypothesis supported by further neuroimaging studies of PS, other neurological cases and neuro-typical individuals with original visual stimulation paradigms, data recordings and analyses. The proposal of a lack of sensitivity to face identity in PS's right FFA due to defective reentrant inputs from the IOG/FFA has also been supported by other cases, functional connectivity and cortical surgery studies. Overall, neural studies of, and based on, the case of prosopagnosia PS strongly question the hierarchical organization of the human neural face recognition system, supporting a more flexible and dynamic view of this key social brain function.
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- Bruno Rossion
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, CRAN, F-54000, Nancy, France; CHRU-Nancy, Service de Neurologie, F-5400, France; Psychological Sciences Research Institute, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Louvain, Belgium.
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Rossion B. Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part I: Function. Neuropsychologia 2022; 173:108278. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Revised: 03/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Kachur A, Osin E, Davydov D, Shutilov K, Novokshonov A. Assessing the Big Five personality traits using real-life static facial images. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8487. [PMID: 32444847 PMCID: PMC7244587 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65358-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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There is ample evidence that morphological and social cues in a human face provide signals of human personality and behaviour. Previous studies have discovered associations between the features of artificial composite facial images and attributions of personality traits by human experts. We present new findings demonstrating the statistically significant prediction of a wider set of personality features (all the Big Five personality traits) for both men and women using real-life static facial images. Volunteer participants (N = 12,447) provided their face photographs (31,367 images) and completed a self-report measure of the Big Five traits. We trained a cascade of artificial neural networks (ANNs) on a large labelled dataset to predict self-reported Big Five scores. The highest correlations between observed and predicted personality scores were found for conscientiousness (0.360 for men and 0.335 for women) and the mean effect size was 0.243, exceeding the results obtained in prior studies using 'selfies'. The findings strongly support the possibility of predicting multidimensional personality profiles from static facial images using ANNs trained on large labelled datasets. Future research could investigate the relative contribution of morphological features of the face and other characteristics of facial images to predicting personality.
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- Alexander Kachur
- Artificial Intelligence LLC (AIPictor), BP Mirland, 2-ya Khutorskaya ul. 38Ас15, Moscow, 127287, Russia.
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- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Department of Psychology, International Laboratory of Positive Psychology of Personality and Motivation, Myasnitskaya ul. 20, Moscow, 101000, Russia.
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- Open University for the Humanities and Economics, Department of Psychology and Pedagogy, Nizhegorodskaya ul. 32s4, Moscow, 109029, Russia
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- BestFitMe Ltd, 67 Grosvenor St, Mayfair, London, W1K 3JN, United Kingdom
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Rossion B, Taubert J. What can we learn about human individual face recognition from experimental studies in monkeys? Vision Res 2019; 157:142-158. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2017] [Revised: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 03/29/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Trujillo S, Trujillo N, Lopez JD, Gomez D, Valencia S, Rendon J, Pineda DA, Parra MA. Social Cognitive Training Improves Emotional Processing and Reduces Aggressive Attitudes in Ex-combatants. Front Psychol 2017; 8:510. [PMID: 28428767 PMCID: PMC5382221 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2016] [Accepted: 03/20/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Emotional processing (EP) is a complex cognitive function necessary to successfully adjust to social environments where we need to interpret and respond to cues that convey threat or reward signals. Ex-combatants have consistently shown atypical EP as well as poor social interactions. Available reintegration programs aim to facilitate the re-adaptation of ex-combatants to their communities. However, they do not incorporate actions to improve EP and to enhance cognitive-emotional regulation. The present study was aimed at evaluating the usefulness of an intervention focused on Social Cognitive Training (SCT), which was designed to equip ex-combatants enrolled in the Social Reintegration Route with EP and social cognition skills. A group of 31 ex-combatants (mean age of 37.2, 29 men) from Colombian illegal armed groups were recruited into this study. Of these, 16 were invited to take part in a SCT and the other continued with the conventional reintegration intervention. Both groups underwent 12 training sessions in a period 12–14 weeks. They were assessed with a comprehensive protocol which included Psychosocial, Behavioral, and Emotion Processing instruments. The scores on these instruments prior to and after the intervention were compared within and between groups. Both groups were matched at baseline. Ex-combatants receiving the SCT experienced significant improvements in EP and a reduction in aggressive attitudes, effects not observed in those continuing the conventional reintegration intervention. This is the first study that achieves such outcomes in such a population using SCT intervention. We discuss the implications of such results toward better social reintegration strategies.
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- Sandra Trujillo
- Grupo de Investigación en Salud Mental, Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellín, Colombia.,Doctoral Program in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Universidad de GranadaGranada, España.,Department of Experimental Psychology, University of GranadaGranada, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Salud Mental, Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellín, Colombia.,Grupo de Neurociencias, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellin, Colombia
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- SISTEMIC, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellín, Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Salud Mental, Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellín, Colombia
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- Grupo de Investigación en Salud Mental, Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellín, Colombia
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- Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht UniversityMaastricht, Netherlands
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- Grupo de Neuropsicología y Conducta, Universidad de AntioquiaMedellin, Colombia
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- School of Social Sciences, Psychology, Heriot-Watt UniversityEdinburgh, UK.,Cerebro, Cognición y Procesos Sociales, Psicologia, Universidad Autónoma del CaribeBarranquilla, Colombia
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Robinson K, Blais C, Duncan J, Forget H, Fiset D. The dual nature of the human face: there is a little Jekyll and a little Hyde in all of us. Front Psychol 2014; 5:139. [PMID: 24639658 PMCID: PMC3944200 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2013] [Accepted: 02/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The fact that a mere glance makes it possible to extract a wealth of information about the person being observed is testament to both the salience of the human face and the brain's high efficiency in processing this information. Prior work has revealed that social judgments of faces are determined by facial features that vary on two orthogonal dimensions: trustworthiness and dominance. We conducted two experiments to investigate the visual information subtending trustworthiness and dominance judgments. In Experiment 1, we used the Bubbles technique to identify the facial areas and the spatial frequencies that modulate these two judgments. Our results show that the eye and mouth areas in high-to-medium spatial frequency bands were positively correlated with judgments of trustworthiness; the eyebrows region in medium-to-low frequency bands was positively correlated with judgments of dominance; and the lower left jawbone in medium-to-low frequency bands was negatively correlated with judgments of dominance. In Experiment 2, we used the results of Experiment 1 to induce subtle variations in the relative contrast of different facial areas, and showed that it is possible to rig social perception using such a manipulation.
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- Karolann Robinson
- Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada ; Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada ; Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychoéducation et de Psychologie, Université du Québec en Outaouais Gatineau, QC, Canada ; Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition Montréal, QC, Canada
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Rezlescu C, Susilo T, Barton JJ, Duchaine B. Normal social evaluations of faces in acquired prosopagnosia. Cortex 2014; 50:200-3. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2013] [Revised: 07/05/2013] [Accepted: 07/31/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Distributed circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate visual recognition. Trends Cogn Sci 2013; 17:210-9. [PMID: 23608364 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2013.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2013] [Revised: 03/29/2013] [Accepted: 03/29/2013] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Increasingly, the neural mechanisms that support visual cognition are being conceptualized as a distributed but integrated system, as opposed to a set of individual, specialized regions that each subserve a particular visual behavior. Consequently, there is an emerging emphasis on characterizing the functional, structural,and computational properties of these broad networks [corrected]. We present a novel theoretical perspective, which elucidates the developmental emergence, computational properties, and vulnerabilities of integrated circuits using face and word recognition as model domains. Additionally, we suggest that, rather than being disparate and independent, these neural circuits are overlapping and subject to the same computational constraints. Specifically, we argue that both word and face recognition rely on fine-grained visual representations but, by virtue of pressure to couple visual and language areas and to keep connection length short, the left hemisphere becomes more finely tuned for word recognition and, consequently, the right hemisphere becomes more finely tuned for face recognition. Thus, both hemispheres ultimately participate in both forms of visual recognition, but their respective contributions are asymmetrically weighted.
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Social judgments from faces. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2013; 23:373-80. [PMID: 23347644 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2012] [Revised: 12/21/2012] [Accepted: 12/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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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 using data-driven, computational models. In contrast, our understanding of the neural underpinnings of these judgments is rather limited. Meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies find a wide range of seemingly inconsistent responses in the amygdala that co-vary with social judgments from faces. Guided by computational models of social judgments, these responses can be accounted by positing that the amygdala (and posterior face selective regions) tracks face typicality. Atypical faces, whether positively or negatively evaluated, elicit stronger responses in the amygdala. We conclude with the promise of data-driven methods for modeling neural responses to social judgments from faces.
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