The N170 component is sensitive to face-like stimuli: a study of Chinese Peking opera makeup

Liu, Tiantian; Mu, Shoukuan; He, Hongjian; Ling-cong, Zhang; Fan, Cong; Ren, Jie; Zhang, Mingming; He, Wei; Luo, Wenbo

doi:10.1007/s11571-016-9399-8

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“…Such preference in species with no parental care advocates the existence of a general mechanism to detect animacy in the natural environment [12]. Brain imaging such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI [13,14], magnetoencephalography, MEG [15], and electroencephalography, EEG [16][17][18][19] reveal that real faces and face-like nonface images activate similar occipito-temporal brain clusters with a hub in the fusiform face area, FFA (for review, see [20,21]). Face impression in such images usually arises spontaneously without any efforts.…”

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Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation

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Research on face sensitivity is of particular relevance during the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic leading to social isolation, but also calling for intact interaction and sharing. Humans possess high sensitivity even to a coarse face scheme, seeing faces in non-face images where real faces do not exist. The advantage of non-face images is that single components do not trigger face processing. Here by implementing a novel set of Face-n-Thing images, we examined (i) how face tuning alters with changing display orientation, and (ii) whether it is affected by observers’ gender. Young females and males were presented with a set of Face-n-Thing images either with canonical upright orientation or inverted 180° in the image plane. Face impression was substantially impeded by display inversion. Furthermore, whereas with upright display orientation, no gender differences were found, with inversion, Face-n-Thing images elicited face impression in females significantly more often. The outcome sheds light on the origins of the face inversion effect in general. Moreover, the findings open a way for examination of face sensitivity and underwriting brain networks in neuropsychiatric conditions related to the current pandemic (such as depression and anxiety), most of which are gender/sex-specific.

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Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation

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“…Studies on face perception of some face representations offer support to this postulate. Indeed, some studies showed that face representations are recognized as face categories even if they depict only schematic faces, emoticons, or items with mere hints of a face (Churches et al, 2014; Hadjikhani et al, 2009; Liu et al, 2016; Wheatley et al, 2011). This is attested by the fact that an increase in brain wave associated with face perception was observed in EEG studies (Eimer, 2011; Sagiv & Bentin, 2001).…”

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Facial reactions to face representations in art: An electromyography study.

Achour-Benallegue¹,

Amarantini²,

Paubel³

et al. 2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Facial mimicry is a reaction to facial expressions. It plays a role in social interaction. Indeed, scholars associated facial mimicry with emotional contagion and understanding others' mental states such as intentions. This is the case for facial mimicry toward human facial expressions, but we know that facial expressions are widely depicted in art through face representations (visual creations that depict facial expressions). However, despite face representation involvement in social interactions, facial reactions toward face representations in art are still unknown. The reason could be that interaction with art objects is usually analyzed within anthropology and art theories, such as conveying social agencies (a desire of action, intentions). Here, we show that facial mimicry is also observed toward face representations. This could be a means that might facilitate social interaction including emotions. Using the electromyography technique, we could show that participants mimic involuntarily face representations when these depict mouth expressions. Participant's zygomaticus and depressor were significantly activated when the pictures depict an expression including zygomaticus or depressor representation respectively. This result led us to infer that when it comes to mouth expressions, face representations in art might trigger spontaneously emotional contagion (of the expressed emotion). It might also convey information about the expressed mental states, which might help to indicate social agencies. Mimicry could participate to explain partly the social agencies of art, that might be no more just abstract concepts, but could find a real correlate in cognitive processes.

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“…Previous studies also suggested that face-like objects were processed in the N170 component in the right hemisphere, through holistic processing (Caharel et al, 2013 ; Liu et al, 2016 ). Furthermore, Churches et al ( 2009 ) suggested that the amplitude of the N170 component in response to objects is affected by the face-likeness of the objects.…”

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Brain Activity Related to the Judgment of Face-Likeness: Correlation between EEG and Face-Like Evaluation

Nihei

Minami

Nakauchi

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Faces represent important information for social communication, because social information, such as face-color, expression, and gender, is obtained from faces. Therefore, individuals' tend to find faces unconsciously, even in objects. Why is face-likeness perceived in non-face objects? Previous event-related potential (ERP) studies showed that the P1 component (early visual processing), the N170 component (face detection), and the N250 component (personal detection) reflect the neural processing of faces. Inverted faces were reported to enhance the amplitude and delay the latency of P1 and N170. To investigate face-likeness processing in the brain, we explored the face-related components of the ERP through a face-like evaluation task using natural faces, cars, insects, and Arcimboldo paintings presented upright or inverted. We found a significant correlation between the inversion effect index and face-like scores in P1 in both hemispheres and in N170 in the right hemisphere. These results suggest that judgment of face-likeness occurs in a relatively early stage of face processing.

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The N170 component is sensitive to face-like stimuli: a study of Chinese Peking opera makeup

Cited by 17 publications

References 37 publications

Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation

Face pareidolia in the brain: Impact of gender and orientation

Facial reactions to face representations in art: An electromyography study.

Brain Activity Related to the Judgment of Face-Likeness: Correlation between EEG and Face-Like Evaluation

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