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Expertise for conspecific face individuation in the human brain.

Abstract：

:Humans exhibit a marked specialization to process the most experienced facial morphologies. In particular, nonhuman primate faces are poorly discriminated compared to human faces in behavioral tasks. So far however, a clear and consistent marker that quantifies our expertise in human over monkey face discrimination directly from brain activity is lacking. Here, using scalp electroencephalography (EEG), we isolate a direct signature of individuation abilities for human and nonhuman (i.e., macaque faces) primate faces. Human or monkey faces were rapidly presented at a base rate of 12 Hz in upright or inverted orientations while participants performed an orthogonal behavioral task. In each stimulation sequence, eight face images of one individual were used as base stimuli, while images of other individuals were briefly introduced every 9th stimulus to quantify an identity-change response at 1.33 Hz and harmonics (i.e., integer multiples) in the EEG frequency spectrum. The brain response to upright human faces was twice as large as to monkey faces, and reduced following picture-plane inversion for human faces only. This reflects the disruption of high-level face identity discrimination developed for the canonical upright human face. No difference was observed between upright monkey faces and inverted human faces, suggesting non-expert visual processes for those two face formats associated with little experience. In addition, the size of the inversion effect for human, but not monkey faces, was predictive of the expertise effect (i.e., difference between upright human and monkey faces) at the individual level. This result suggests a selective ability to discriminate human faces that does not contribute to the individuation of other unexperienced face morphologies such as monkey faces. Overall, these findings indicate that human expertise for conspecific face discrimination can be isolated and quantified in individual human brains.

journal_name

Neuroimage

journal_title

NeuroImage

authors

Damon F,Leleu A,Rekow D,Poncet F,Baudouin JY

doi

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116218

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-01 00:00:00

pages

116218

eissn

1053-8119

issn

1095-9572

pii

S1053-8119(19)30809-2

journal_volume

204

pub_type

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Expertise for conspecific face individuation in the human brain.