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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.
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Psychology, Mathematical
Christian Gerlach, Erik Mogensen
Summary: It is widely believed that upright faces are processed holistically compared to inverted faces, resulting a face inversion effect. However, the best way to measure this effect, whether it is specific to face processing tasks, and its correlation with upright face processing are unclear. A study with a large sample size (N = 420) investigated the processing of upright and inverted stimuli in different face and object tasks. The results showed that the inversion effects were task-dependent and did not correlate better in face processing tasks than in face and object processing tasks. Contrary to common assumptions, the inversion effects did not capture effects specific to holistic processing of upright faces.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2023)
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
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.
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Neurosciences
Beatrice de Gelder, Elizabeth Huis In 't Veldt, Minye Zhan, Jan Van den Stock
Summary: This study investigates a new case of acquired prosopagnosia and finds that the structurally intact FFA retains face selective response despite lesions in the face perception network. At the behavioral level, impaired configural processing for facial identity was observed, but not for other stimulus categories and facial expression recognition. These findings are important for understanding the behavioral and brain basis of face perception.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Zhong Zhao, Haiming Tang, Xiaobin Zhang, Xingda Qu, Xinyao Hu, Jianping Lu
Summary: Previous studies have shown that machine learning applied to eye-tracking data during image viewing can accurately identify individuals with ASD. This study demonstrated that eye-tracking data from face-to-face conversations can classify children with ASD and TD, with better accuracy achieved by combining visual fixation and session length features. The results suggest that ASD may be objectively screened in everyday social interactions.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Katja Koelkebeck, Jochen Bauer, Thomas Suslow, Patricia Ohrmann
Summary: This case report describes a male patient with right amygdala damage and an ASD. He displayed a non-response of the amygdala to fearful faces and tended to misinterpret fearful expressions. Moreover, a non-reactivity of both amygdalae to emotional facial expressions at an implicit processing level was revealed.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Andreja Stajduhar, Tzvi Ganel, Galia Avidan, R. Shayna Rosenbaum, Erez Freud
Summary: This study investigated the effect of mask-wearing on face perception abilities in school-age children and found that masks do hinder their face recognition abilities. The study also found that children exhibit qualitative differences in processing masked versus non-masked faces, and these differences vary across different age groups.
COGNITIVE RESEARCH-PRINCIPLES AND IMPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Fatemeh Zabihi, Janina Reissner, Anika Friese, Maiko Schulze, Chuanxiong Nie, Philip Nickl, Leon Lehmann, Paul Siller, Christoph Melcher, Thomas Schneiders, Thomas Gries, Uwe Roesler, Rainer Haag
Summary: Wearing face masks is important for protecting against virus-related infectious diseases. Applying virus protective coatings to the masks can minimize the risk of indirect transmission. This study evaluated the effectiveness of nonwoven polyamide 6 (PA6) filter material coated with negatively charged linear polyglycerol sulfate (LPGS) as a virus binding group. The results showed that the LPGS-coated PA6 filter material had high filtration efficiencies for airborne viruses and reduced viral titres in solution, confirming its suitability for suppressing virus spreading during pandemics.
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brad Duchaine, Constantin Rezlescu, Lucia Garrido, Yiyuan Zhang, Maira V. Braga, Tirta Susilo
Summary: The study finds that our ability to perceive upright faces is a result of both evolved orientation-specific mechanisms and experience. A man with a congenital joint disorder, Claudio, showed similar performance with upright and inverted faces in detection and identity-matching tasks, indicating the contribution of evolved mechanisms. However, experience played a greater role in detecting Thatcherized faces.
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hongbo Yu, Chujun Lin, Sai Sun, Runnan Cao, Kohitij Kar, Shuo Wang
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of faces in emotional processing and social evaluations, and advocates for the use of multimodal cognitive neuroscience methods to study these processes. Through specific case studies, the article demonstrates the application of multimodal approaches in investigating ambiguity in facial expressions of emotion and social trait judgment of faces, and explores the differences in facial processing between neurotypicals and people with autism spectrum disorder. Additionally, the article suggests new practices for studying the emotional processing and social evaluations of faces.
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Roza M. Vlasova, Ana-Maria Iosif, Amy M. Ryan, Lucy H. Funk, Takeshi Murai, Shuai Chen, Tyler A. Lesh, Douglas J. Rowland, Jeffrey Bennett, Casey E. Hogrefe, Richard J. Maddock, Michael J. Gandal, Daniel H. Geschwind, Cynthia M. Schumann, Judy Van de Water, A. Kimberley McAllister, Cameron S. Carter, Martin A. Styner, David G. Amaral, Melissa D. Bauman
Summary: This study evaluated the neurodevelopment of male rhesus monkeys born to dams treated with maternal immune activation (MIA), finding subtle changes in cognitive development and deviations from species-typical brain growth trajectories in MIA-treated animals. Longitudinal MRI revealed significant gray matter volume reductions in the prefrontal and frontal cortices of MIA-treated offspring at 6 months, along with smaller frontal white matter volumes at later time points. These findings provide evidence of early postnatal changes in brain development in MIA-exposed nonhuman primates, establishing a relevant model system to explore the neurodevelopmental trajectory associated with prenatal immune challenge.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Cell Biology
Gidon Levakov, Olaf Sporns, Galia Avidan
Summary: Mapping the human face-processing network is typically done using isolated, static face images, overlooking the widespread cortical interactions obtained in response to naturalistic face dynamics and context. In this study with typical adults, we measured cortical connectivity patterns in response to a dynamic movie and found correlations between these patterns and face recognition scores. Our findings demonstrate the importance of fine-scale dynamics in attentional, memory, and perceptual neural circuitry for face processing.
Article
Neurosciences
Marissa Co, Rebecca A. Barnard, Jennifer N. Jahncke, Sally Grindstaff, Lev M. Fedorov, Andrew C. Adey, Kevin M. Wright, Brian J. O'Roak
Summary: T-Box Brain Transcription Factor 1 (TBR1) plays essential roles in brain development. Mutations in TBR1 have been found to affect brain development. This study suggests that patient-specific Tbr1 mutant mice can serve as valuable models for studying TBR1-related developmental conditions.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Chun-Hui Li, Man-Ying Wang, Bo-Cheng Kuo
Summary: We investigated the temporal dynamics of the face-like inversion effect during Chinese character recognition using multivariate decoding and temporal generalization analyses. The results showed that inversion had a stronger impact on faces and compound characters compared to simple characters, occurring earlier and lasting longer for faces. This study provides novel evidence for the temporal dynamics of the face-like inversion effect in Chinese character recognition.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Shulamite A. Green, Leanna Hernandez, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto
Article
Neuroimaging
Jamie D. Feusner, Andreas Lidstrom, Teena D. Moody, Cecilia Dhejne, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Ivanka Savic
BRAIN IMAGING AND BEHAVIOR
(2017)
Article
Neurosciences
Taylor Kuhn, Daniel Schonfeld, Philip Sayegh, Alyssa Arentoft, Jacob D. Jones, Charles H. Hinkin, Susan Y. Bookheimer, April D. Thames
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2017)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
L. M. Hernandez, K. Krasileva, S. A. Green, L. E. Sherman, C. Ponting, R. McCarron, J. K. Lowe, D. H. Geschwind, S. Y. Bookheimer, M. Dapretto
MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY
(2017)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Monika Polczynska, Taylor Kuhn, S. Christine You, Patricia Walshaw, Susan Curtiss, Susan Bookheimer
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
(2017)
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Neurosciences
Christopher F. Benjamin, Patricia D. Walshaw, Kayleigh Hale, William D. Gaillard, Leslie C. Baxter, Madison M. Berl, Monika Polczynska, Stephanie Noble, Rafeed Alkawadri, Lawrence J. Hirsch, R. Todd Constable, Susan Y. Bookheimer
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2017)
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Clinical Neurology
Martin P. Paulus, Murray B. Stein, Michelle G. Craske, Susan Bookheimer, Charles T. Taylor, Alan N. Simmons, Natasha Sidhu, Katherine S. Young, Boyang Fan
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Adriana Di Martino, David O'Connor, Bosi Chen, Kaat Alaerts, Jeffrey S. Anderson, Michal Assaf, Joshua H. Balsters, Leslie Baxter, Anita Beggiato, Sylvie Bernaerts, Laura M. E. Blanken, Susan Y. Bookheimer, B. Blair Braden, Lisa Byrge, F. Xavier Castellanos, Mirella Dapretto, Richard Delorme, Damien A. Fair, Inna Fishman, Jacqueline Fitzgerald, Louise Gallagher, R. Joanne Jao Keehn, Daniel P. Kennedy, Janet E. Lainhart, Beatriz Luna, Stewart H. Mostofsky, Ralph-Axel Muller, Mary Beth Nebel, Joel T. Nigg, Kirsten O'Hearn, Marjorie Solomon, Roberto Toro, Chandan J. Vaidya, Nicole Wenderoth, Tonya White, R. Cameron Craddock, Catherine Lord, Bennett Leventhal, Michael P. Milham
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Neurosciences
Taylor Kuhn, Tobias Kaufmann, Nhat Trung Doan, Lars T. Westlye, Jacob Jones, Rodolfo A. Nunez, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Elyse J. Singer, Charles H. Hinkin, April D. Thames
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Prabha Siddarth, Berna Rahi, Natacha D. Emerson, Alison C. Burggren, Karen J. Miller, Susan Bookheimer, Helen Lavretsky, Bruce Dobkin, Gary Small, David A. Merrill
JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
(2018)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Duncan B. Clark, Celia B. Fisher, Susan Bookheimer, Sandra A. Brown, John H. Evans, Christian Hopfer, James Hudziak, Ivan Montoya, Margaret Murray, Adolf Pfefferbaum, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
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Psychology, Developmental
Shulamite A. Green, Leanna M. Hernandez, Hilary C. Bowman, Susan Y. Bookheimer, Mirella Dapretto
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
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Anatomy & Morphology
Anna Ivanova, Eran Zaidel, Noriko Salamon, Susan Bookheimer, Lucina Q. Uddin, Stella de Bode
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2017)
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Clinical Neurology
Alison C. Burggren, Zanjbeel Mahmood, Theresa M. Harrison, Prabha Siddarth, Karen J. Miller, Gary W. Small, David A. Merrill, Susan Y. Bookheimer
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
(2017)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Monika M. Polczynska, Kevin Japardi, Susan Y. Bookheimer
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2017)