RT Journal Article
T1 Long-latency ERPs and recognition of facial identity
A1 Olivares, Ela Isabel
A1 Iglesias Dorado, Jaime
A1 Rodríguez Holguín, Socorro
K1 ERP
K1 Event-related potentials
K1 Facial processing
K1 N400
K1 Potenciales evocados
K1 Procesamiento facial
AB N400 brain event-related potential (ERP) is a mismatch negativity originally found in response to semantic incongruences of a linguistic nature and is used paradigmatically to investigate memory organization in various domains of information, including that of faces. In the present study, we analyzed different mismatch negativities evoked in N400-like paradigms related to recognition of newly learned faces with or without associated verbal information. ERPs were compared in the following conditions: (1) mismatching features (eyes –eyebrows) using a facial context corresponding to the faces learned without associated verbal information (‘‘pure’’ intradomain facial processing); (2) mismatching features using a facial context corresponding to the faces learned with associated occupations and proper names (‘‘nonpure’’ intradomain facial processing); (3) mismatching occupations using a facial context (cross-domain processing); and (4) mismatching names using an occupation context (intradomain verbal processing). Results revealed that mismatching stimuli in the four conditions elicited a mismatch negativity analogous to N400 but with different timing and topographical patterns. The onset of the mismatch negativity occurred earliest in Conditions 1 and 2, followed by Condition 4, and latest in Condition 3. The negativity had the shortest duration in Task 1 and the longest duration in Task 3. Bilateral parietal activity was confirmed in all conditions, in addition to a predominant right posterior temporal localization in Condition 1, a predominant right frontal localization in Condition 2, an occipital localization in Condition 3, and a more widely distributed (although with posterior predominance) localization in Condition 4. These results support the existence of multiple N400, and particularly of a nonlinguistic N400 related to purely visual information, which can be evoked by facial structure processing in the absence of verbal –semantic information
PB MIT Press
PB Cognitive Neuroscience Institute [Copublisher]
SN 0898-929X
YR 2003
FD 2003
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16822
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/16822
LA eng
NO Olivares EI; Iglesias J; Rodríguez Holguín S (2003). Long-latency ERPs and recognition of facial identity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 15, 136-151. Doi:10.1162/089892903321107873
NO This work was supported by Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (grant 06/0168/2000) and Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología de España (grant BSO2000-0114)
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