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Electrophysiological Studies of Human Face Perception. III: Effects of Top-down Processing on Face-specific Potentials

Puce, A.·1999·Cerebral Cortex

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This is the last in a series of papers dealing with intracranial event-related potential (ERP) correlates of face perception. Here we describe the results of manipulations that may exert top-down influences on face recognition and face-specific ERPs, and the effects of cortical stimulation at face-specific sites. Ventral face-specific N200 was not evoked by affective stimuli; showed little or no habituation; was not affected by the familiarity or unfamiliarity of faces; showed no semantic priming; and was not affected by face-name learning or identification. P290 and N700 were affected by semantic priming and by face-name learning and identification. The early fraction of N700 and face-specific P350 exhibited significant habituation. About half of the AP350 sites exhibited semantic priming, whereas the VP350 and LP350 sites did not. Cortical stimulation evoked a transient inability to name familiar faces or evoked face-related hallucinations at two-thirds of face-specific N200 sites. These results are discussed in relation to human behavioral studies and monkey single-cell recordings. Discussion of results of all three papers concludes that: face-specific N200 reflects the operation of a module specialized for the perception of human faces; ventral and lateral occipitotemporal cortex are composed of a complex mosaic of functionally discrete patches of cortex of variable number, size and location; in ventral cortex there is a posterior-to-anterior trend in the location of patches in the order letter-strings, form, hands, objects, faces and face parts; P290 and N700 at face-specific N200 sites, and face-specific P350, are subject to top-down influences.

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Authors: Puce, A.
Affiliations: United States Department of Veterans Affairs (US)
Corresponding author: Puce, A.
ORCID: Puce, A.
Venue: Cerebral Cortex
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published: 1999-07-01
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
Pages: 445-458
ISSN: 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.5.445
OpenAlex: W2151799366
Cited by: 422
References: 89
Citations by year: 2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 15
FWCI: 11.16
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (MH-05 286, R01MH005286)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords: face perception, top-down processing, N2 component, P350, semantic priming, habituation, cortical stimulation, face hallucination, face recognition (cognition), ventral occipitotemporal cortex, intracranial recordings
MeSH terms: Arousal, Cerebral Cortex, Electric Stimulation, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Facial Expression, Form Perception, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Mental Processes, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Semantics

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