scholarly journals Facial identity encoding, face space structure and neural-based image reconstruction in congenital prosopagnosia.

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1234
Author(s):  
Dan Nemrodov ◽  
Adrian Nestor ◽  
Galia Avidan ◽  
David Plaut ◽  
Marlene Behrmann
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Hsun Chang ◽  
Dan Nemrodov ◽  
Andy C. H. Lee ◽  
Adrian Nestor

AbstractVisual memory for faces has been extensively researched, especially regarding the main factors that influence face memorability. However, what we remember exactly about a face, namely, the pictorial content of visual memory, remains largely unclear. The current work aims to elucidate this issue by reconstructing face images from both perceptual and memory-based behavioural data. Specifically, our work builds upon and further validates the hypothesis that visual memory and perception share a common representational basis underlying facial identity recognition. To this end, we derived facial features directly from perceptual data and then used such features for image reconstruction separately from perception and memory data. Successful levels of reconstruction were achieved in both cases for newly-learned faces as well as for familiar faces retrieved from long-term memory. Theoretically, this work provides insights into the content of memory-based representations while, practically, it opens the path to novel applications, such as computer-based ‘sketch artists’.


2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (14) ◽  
pp. 3801-3812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romina Palermo ◽  
Davide Rivolta ◽  
C. Ellie Wilson ◽  
Linda Jeffery

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 604-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nestor ◽  
D. Plaut ◽  
M. Behrmann

2004 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 358-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Eifuku ◽  
Wania C. De Souza ◽  
Ryoi Tamura ◽  
Hisao Nishijo ◽  
Taketoshi Ono

To investigate the neuronal basis underlying face identification, the activity of face neurons in the anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS) and the anterior inferior temporal gyrus (ITG) of macaque monkeys was analyzed during their performance of a face-identification task. The face space was composed by the activities of face neurons during the face-identification task, based on a multidimensional scaling (MDS) method; the face space composed by the anterior STS neurons represented facial views, whereas that composed by the anterior ITG neurons represented facial identity. The temporal correlation between the behavioral reaction time of the animal and the latency of face-related neuronal responses was also analyzed. The response latency of some of the face neurons in the anterior ITG exhibited a significant correlation with the behavioral reaction time, whereas this correlation was not significant in the anterior STS. The correlation of the latency of face-related neuronal responses in the anterior ITG with the behavioral reaction time was not found to be attributed to the correlation between the response latency and the magnitude of the neuronal responses. The present results suggest that the anterior ITG is closely related to judgments of facial identity, and that the anterior STS is closely related to analyses of incoming perceptual information; face identification in monkeys might involve interactions between the two areas.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 1262
Author(s):  
Dan Nemrodov ◽  
Matthias Niemeier ◽  
Ashutosh Patel ◽  
Adrian Nestor

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Chi-Hsun Chang ◽  
Dan Nemrodov ◽  
Andy Lee ◽  
Adrian Nestor

eNeuro ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. ENEURO.0358-17.2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Nemrodov ◽  
Matthias Niemeier ◽  
Ashutosh Patel ◽  
Adrian Nestor

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