Long term fMRI adaptation depends on adapter response in face-selective cortex.

Repetition suppression (RS) reflects a neural attenuation during repeated stimulation. We used fMRI and the subsequent memory paradigm to test the predictive coding hypothesis for RS during visual memory processing by investigating the interaction between RS and differences due to memory in category-selective cortex (FFA, pSTS, PPA, and RSC). Fifty-six participants encoded face and house stimuli twice, followed by an immediate and delayed (48 h) recognition memory assessment.

Developmental Prosopagnosia and Elastic Versus Static Face Recognition in an Incidental Learning Task.

Previous research on the beneficial effect of motion has postulated that learning a face in motion provides additional cues to recognition. Surprisingly, however, few studies have examined the beneficial effect of motion in an incidental learning task and developmental prosopagnosia (DP) even though such studies could provide more valuable information about everyday face recognition compared to the perception of static faces. In the current study, 18 young adults (Experiment 1) and five DPs and 10 age-matched controls (Experiment 2) participated in an incidental learning task during which both static and elastically moving unfamiliar faces were sequentially presented and were to be recognized in a delayed visual search task during which the faces could either keep their original presentation or switch (from static to elastically moving or vice versa).

Measuring facial identity and emotion integration using the redundancy gain paradigm.

Early theories on face perception posit that invariant (i.e., identity) and changeable (i.

Holistic integration of gaze cues in visual face and body perception: Evidence from the composite design.

A considerable amount of research on identity recognition and emotion identification with the composite design points to the holistic processing of these aspects in faces and bodies. In this paradigm, the interference from a nonattended face half on the perception of the attended half is taken as evidence for holistic processing (i.e.

Holistic processing of human body postures: evidence from the composite effect.

The perception of socially relevant stimuli (e.g., faces and bodies) has received considerable attention in the vision science community.