The face‐specific N170 component reflects late stages in the structural encoding of faces

By Martin Eimer. NeuroReport, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: psychological and neurological mechanisms. (2002, background): “Whereas the construction of a detailed structural representation of the global configuration of the face thus seems to require about 170 ms (Eimer, 2000b), it appears that some rapid, coarse categorization of gender and emotion can occur with substantially shorter latencies, presumably indicating…”
Understanding the Nature of Face Processing Impairment in Autism: Insights From Behavioral and Electrophysiological Studies (2005, background): “…but affects subsequent components such as the N250 recorded at inferior temporal lobe electrodes (repetition of famous faces; Schweinberger, Pickering, Jentzsch, Burton, & Kaufmann, 2002) and late components peaking after 400 msec (Eimer, 2000b; Henson et al., 2003; Mnatsakanian & Tarkka, 2003).”
Event-related potentials to schematic faces in social phobia (2007, background): “…2003; Schupp et al., 2000) or the facial expression was presented outside of focal vision with subjects instructed to fixate on a cross in the centre of a screen while one facial picture was presented simultaneously at each outer area of the left and right area of the screen (Eimer & Holmes, 2002).”
Neural bases of eye and gaze processing: the core of social cognition. (2009, neutral): “The FIE is also seen on the N170 which is larger and delayed compared to upright faces (Bentin et al., 1996; Eimer, 2000a; Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 February 14.”
Event-related brain potential correlates of emotional face processing (2006, background): “The N170 component is assumed to reflect the pre-categorical perceptual encoding of faces in face-specific ventral visual areas, which provides structural representations that are utilized by subsequent face recognition stages (Bentin, Allison, Puce, Perez, & McCarthy, 1996; Eimer, 1998, 2000).”
Inversion and Contrast Polarity Reversal Affect both Encoding and Recognition Processes of Unfamiliar Faces: A Repetition Study Using ERPs (2002, background): “…N170, which seems unaffected either by familiarity (Bentin and Deouell, 2000; Eimer, 2000a) or by directed attention (Séverac-Cauquil et al., 2000), is likely to reflect face encoding processes, especially the stages where representations of global face configurations are generated (Eimer, 2000b).”
Cortical specialisation for face processing: face-sensitive event-related potential components in 3- and 12-month-old infants (2003, background): “This conclusion is based on findings demonstrating that the N170 is unaffected by the familiarity of faces but is sensitive to experimental manipulations that alter the basic structural properties of faces e.g., inversion, feature scrambling (George et al 1996; Eimer 2000a; Eimer 2000b).”
Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces. (2007, neutral): “…or stimlus repetition, but later responses (between 200 and 500 ms), ecorded in parietal and frontal locations, are sensitive to familarity (Bentin & Deouell, 2000; Eimer, 2000; Henson et al., 003; Paller, Hutson, Miller, & Boehm, 2003; Schweinberger, ickering, Burton, & Kaufmann, 2002).”
N170 or N1? Spatiotemporal differences between object and face processing using ERPs. (2004, background): “ERP studies have found a negative component, the N170 that responds maximally to face stimuli over temporo-parietal regions of the human scalp, between 140 and 200 ms (Bötzel et al., 1995; Bentin et al., 1996; George et al., 1996; Eimer, 2000).”
Neural Bases of Cognitive Development (2007, background): “The N170 is typically of larger amplitude and/or has a longer latency for inverted than upright faces (Bentin et al., 1996; de Haan et al., 2002; Eimer, 2000; Itier & Taylor, 2002; Rossion et al., 2000), a pattern that parallels behavioral studies showing that adults are slower at recognizing invert”
Affective Judgments of Faces Modulate Early Activity (∼160 ms) within the Fusiform Gyri (2002, background): “As the N170 was found to be unaffected by face familiarity, it seems to be associated with precategorial structural encoding of faces rather than with later processes involved in face recognition or identification (Bentin and Deouell, 2000; Bentin et al., 1996; Eimer, 2000).”
Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces (2004, positive): “ERP studies in humans (Bentin et al., 1999; Eimer, 2000; Puce et al., 1999) have shown that the initial response to faces, the N170 potential, is not modulated by familiarity or stimulus repetition, but later responses to faces (between 200 and 500 ms) are sensitive to familiarity (these later respo”