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Psychiatry
Umit Aydin, Roser Canigueral, Charlotte Tye, Grainne McLoughlin
Summary: Atypicalities in face perception and interpretation are observed in autism and ADHD. Studying face processing in young adults provides crucial information on the adult outcomes of these disorders.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tessa Marzi, Giorgio Gronchi, Maria Teresa Turano, Fabio Giovannelli, Fiorenza Giganti, Mohamed Rebai, Maria Pia Viggiano
Summary: This study utilized event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate individual abilities in face recognition, highlighting the different contributions of holistic and featural analysis in bad and good performers. The results suggest that the N170 component can be used as a tool to differentiate face encoding processes based on individual differences.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Elisabet Alzueta, Dominique Kessel, Almudena Capilla
Summary: One's own face is not processed more analytically than a familiar face, as suggested by the lack of difference in neural activity when identifying self-face compared to another familiar face. The advantage in self-face processing may be due to self-related attentional mechanisms rather than a more analytical visuoperceptual strategy.
Article
Psychiatry
Hui Shi, Gang Sun, Lun Zhao
Summary: The study investigated the age effect on face perceptual processing in MDD patients by analyzing the N170 component. It found that there is altered face perception in middle-aged but not in young MDD patients.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
A. L. Abreu, L. Fernandez-Aguilar, F. Ferreira-Santos, C. Fernandes
Summary: The present study investigates how familiarity modulates the neural processing of faces under different conditions (upright or inverted, neutral or emotional). The results demonstrate that increased facial familiarity enhances the identification of emotional facial expressions. Additionally, the familiarity of faces is associated with larger N250 amplitude, indicating additional processing of information prompted by loved ones' faces.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Carina Fernandes, Ines Macedo, Ana R. Goncalves, Mariana R. Pereira, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Fernando Barbosa, Joao Marques-Teixeira
Summary: Older adults show an enhanced N170 amplitude during the visualization of facial expressions of emotion. This effect is not specific to facial stimuli and is not modulated by own-age faces. The increased N170 amplitude in older adults may reflect a higher ambiguity of older faces due to age-related changes in their physical features, while the decreased P250 amplitudes for older faces may reflect a reduced processing of the emotional content of these faces.
Article
Neurosciences
Juan Felipe Quinones Sanchez, Xinyang Liu, Changsong Zhou, Andrea Hildebrandt
Summary: This study assessed the genetic and environmental influences on white matter bundles connecting face-responsive areas in the brain, finding that genetic and environmental factors explain individual differences in fiber quality within the face network, compared with much larger genetic effects on global brain white matter quality. Additionally, individual-specific environmental influences on the face processing brain network are large, suggesting a connection between nature and nurture views on this specific human ability.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mutsuhide Tanaka, Emi Yamada, Toshihiko Maekawa, Katsuya Ogata, Naomi Takamiya, Hisato Nakazono, Shozo Tobimatsu
Summary: Although no evidence of SAPEs was found in behavioral results, gender-related SAPEs were discovered in the right N170 amplitude. Specifically, female participants showed enhanced right N170 amplitude for emotionally neutral faces primed by fearful faces, while male participants exhibited decreased N170 amplitude in fearful prime trials with fearful target faces. Male participants also showed significant correlations between N170 amplitude and behavioral response time in the fearful prime-neutral target condition.
BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Shadi Bagherzadeh-Azbari, Gilbert Ka Bo Lau, Guang Ouyang, Changsong Zhou, Andrea Hildebrandt, Werner Sommer, Ming Lui
Summary: According to the research findings, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and those with high autistic traits have impaired sensitivity to gaze direction, especially in specific emotions. Multimodal investigations can help us understand the characteristics of these individuals.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Sahin Naqvi, Yoeri Sleyp, Hanne Hoskens, Karlijne Indencleef, Jeffrey P. Spence, Rose Bruffaerts, Ahmed Radwan, Ryan J. Eller, Stephen Richmond, Mark D. Shriver, John R. Shaffer, Seth M. Weinberg, Susan Walsh, James Thompson, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Stefan Sunaert, Hilde Peeters, Joanna Wysocka, Peter Claes
Summary: A multivariate genome-wide association study has identified shared developmental axes between face and brain shaping each other during early embryogenesis. However, this interaction does not seem to impact later brain development related to cognitive function.
Article
Neurosciences
Charis Styliadis, Rachel Leung, Selin Ozcan, Eric A. Moulton, Elizabeth Pang, Margot J. Taylor, Christos Papadelis
Summary: The study found that adolescents with ASD showed overactivation in the left hemisphere of the cerebellum when processing happy facial expressions, and overactivation in the midline of the cerebellum when processing angry facial expressions. This indicates a prioritized hemispheric activity for happy faces and a later midline activity for angry faces in adolescents with ASD.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Kelly J. Jantzen, Nicole McNamara, Adam Harris, Anna Schubert, Michael Brooks, Matthew Seifert, Lawrence A. Symons
Summary: Previous research has shown that reversing the contrast of the eye region affects the N170 ERP. This study specifically evaluated the impact of reversing the contrast of just the iris and sclera on the N170 in upright and inverted faces. The results indicate that the contrast of the eyes is an important contributor to the N170 ERP, affecting only the amplitude for upright faces.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Sara Jane Webb, Iris Emerman, Catherine Sugar, Damla Senturk, Adam J. Naples, Susan Faja, Jessica Benton, Heather Borland, Carter Carlos, April R. Levin, Takumi McAllister, Megha Santhosh, Raphael A. Bernier, Katarzyna Chawarska, Geraldine Dawson, James Dziura, Shafali Jeste, Natalia Kleinhans, Michael Murias, Maura Sabatos-DeVito, Frederick Shic, James C. McPartland
Summary: Recent proposals suggest using neural biomarkers to improve clinical trial processes in neurodevelopmental conditions. This study investigates the age-related differences in face processing among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typical development (TD). The findings show that ASD participants demonstrate slower latencies in face processing compared to TD children of the same age.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
John E. Richards, Maggie W. Guy, Abigail L. Hogan, Jane E. Roberts
Summary: This study examined the patterns of event-related potential responses during a face processing task in groups of preschoolers uniquely impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including children with ASD, children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), children with familial risk for ASD but without a diagnosis (ASIBs), and a low-risk control (LRC) group. The results showed that the FXS group had larger ERP components compared to the other groups, while the ASD and ASIB groups showed smaller responses for specific stimuli. The similarity of the ASD and ASIB responses suggested a common genetic or environmental origin for the reduced response.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Rianne Haartsen, Luke Mason, Pilar Garces, Anna Gui, Tony Charman, Julian Tillmann, Mark H. Johnson, Jan K. Buitelaar, Eva Loth, Declan Murphy, Emily J. H. Jones
Summary: The study explores the neural processing of faces in individuals with autism and finds differences in the activation patterns between diagnostic groups. The findings suggest that early difficulties with configural face processing in autism may lead to compensatory processes and the involvement of non-typical neural systems in later development.