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Neural encoding of real world face perception.

Arish Alreja, Michael J Ward, Lisa S Parker, R Mark Richardson, Louis-Philippe Morency, Taylor J Abel, Avniel Singh Ghuman

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7 authors.

Arish AlrejaMachine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Michael J WardDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Lisa S ParkerCenter for Bioethics & Law, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
R Mark RichardsonDepartment of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
Louis-Philippe MorencyLanguage Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Taylor J AbelNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Avniel Singh GhumanNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.

Funding

Project 5: ComputationalP50MH109429 · NIMH · NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES · PI Michael Peter Milham · 2017 to 2026
$25.3M
Active Social Vision: How the Brain Processes Visual Information During Natural Social PerceptionR01MH132225 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI AVNIEL S GHUMAN, Louis-Philippe Morency · 2023 to 2026
$2.8M
Inside the Social Perception Network: Dynamics, Connectivity, and StimulationR01MH107797 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GHUMAN, AVNIEL S · 2015 to 2019
$2.4M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH109429NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH107797NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH132225
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social perception unfolds as we freely interact with people around us. We investigated the neural basis of real world face perception using multi electrode intracranial recordings in humans during spontaneous interactions with friends, family, and others. Computational models reconstructed the faces participants looked at during natural interactions, including facial expressions and motion, from brain activity alone. The results highlighted a critical role for the social vision pathway, a network of areas spanning parietal, temporal, and occipital cortex. This network was more sharply tuned to subtle expressions compared to intense expressions, which was confirmed with controlled psychophysical experiments. These findings reveal that the human social vision pathway encodes facial expressions and motion as deviations from a neutral expression prototype during natural social interactions in real life.

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PMCPMC12133080

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