Dynamics of neural representations when searching for exemplars and categories of human and non-human faces.

ABSTRACT: Face perception abilities in humans exhibit a marked expertise in distinguishing individual human faces at the expense of individual faces from other species (the other-species effect). In particular, one behavioural effect of such specialization is that human adults search for and find categories of non-human faces faster and more accurately than a specific non-human face, and vice versa for human faces. However, a recent visual search study showed that neural responses (event-related potentials, ERPs) were identical when finding either a non-human or human face. We used time-resolved multivariate pattern analysis of the EEG data from that study to investigate the dynamics of neural representations during a visual search for own-species (human) or other-species (non-human ape) faces, with

SUBMITTER: Bayet L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6125483 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature