How occupational status influences the processing of faces: An EEG study.

This study examines the influence of social hierarchy on the neural electrophysiological responses to faces. In contrast with earlier EEG studies that typically manipulate social rank through competitive situations, we implemented hierarchy through occupational status and thus contrasted faces associated with high- vs. low-status (e.

Gaze perception induces early attention orienting effects in occipito-parietal regions.

Other's eye gaze is a powerful attention orienting cue that can change our perception of objects in the environment. Here, we seek to characterize the influence of attention orienting by eye gaze on the neural processing of visual targets. We used a Posner-like cueing paradigm to investigate with magnetoencephalography the brain responses associated with target processing.

Postsurgical Disfigurement Influences Disgust Recognition: A Case-Control Study.

Background: Little is known about how emotion recognition may be modified in individuals prone to elicit disgust.

Objective: We sought to determine if subjects with total laryngectomy would present a modified recognition of facial expressions of disgust.

Methods: A total of 29 patients presenting with a history of advanced-stage laryngeal cancer were recruited, 17 being surgically treated (total laryngectomy) and 12 treated with chemoradiation therapy only.

Processing of gaze direction within the N170/M170 time window: A combined EEG/MEG study.

Gaze direction is an important social signal for human beings. Beside the role of gaze in attention orienting, direct gaze (that is, gaze directed toward an observer) is a highly relevant biological stimulus that elicits attention capture and increases face encoding. Brain imaging studies have emphasized the role of the superior temporal sulcus (STS) in the coding of gaze direction and in the integration of gaze and head cues of social attention.

Early Left Parietal Activity Elicited by Direct Gaze: A High-Density EEG Study.

Gaze is one of the most important cues for human communication and social interaction. In particular, gaze contact is the most primary form of social contact and it is thought to capture attention. A very early-differentiated brain response to direct versus averted gaze has been hypothesized.