The human amygdala is critical for social cognition from faces, as borne out by impairments
in recognizing facial emotion following amygdala lesions [1] and differential activation of the�…

Face perception elicits activation within a distributed cortical network in the human brain.
The network includes visual (“core”) regions, as well as limbic and prefrontal (“extended”)�…

The ability to perceive and differentiate facial expressions is vital for social communication.
Numerous functional MRI (fMRI) studies in humans have shown enhanced responses to�…

Gender differences are an important factor regulating our daily interactions. Using functional
magnetic resonance imaging we show that brain areas involved in processing social signals�…

Because moving depictions of face emotion have greater ecological validity than their static
counterparts, it has been suggested that still photographs may not engage�…

Recent studies have cast doubts on the appealing idea that the processing of threat-related
stimuli in the amygdala is unconstrained by the availability of attentional resources�…

Understanding the mechanisms of unconscious processing is one of the most substantial
endeavors of cognitive science. While there are many different empirical ways to address�…

Neurophysiological evidence is described showing that some neurons in the macaque
inferior temporal visual cortex have responses that are invariant with respect to the position�…

It is known that infant faces stimulate visual and anterior brain regions belonging to the
mesocortical limbic system (orbito-frontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and nucleus�…

The present study investigated the influence social factors upon the neural processing of
faces of other races using event-related potentials. A multi-tiered approach was used to�…