open mouth displays contribute to efficiency gains

J Vis. 2012 May 25;12(5):7. doi: 10.1167/12.5.7. 
Of toothy grins and angry snarls--open mouth displays contribute to efficiency gains in search for emotional faces.
Horstmann G, Lipp OV, Becker SI.

Journal of Vision

 

Neuroanatomical correlates of visual car expertise

Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Assaf Harel, Shlomo Bentin, Ryota Kanai, Geraint Rees (2012)  Neuroanatomical correlates of visual car expertise.   Neuroimage 62: 1. 147-153 Aug  

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Cerebellum and processing of negative facial emotions

Cogn Emot. 2012 Aug;26(5):786-99. Epub 2011 Nov 14.
Cerebellum and processing of negative facial emotions: Cerebellar transcranial DC stimulation specifically enhances the emotional recognition of facial anger and sadness.
Ferrucci R, Giannicola G, Rosa M, Fumagalli M, Boggio PS, Hallett M, Zago S, Priori A.

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Developmental prosopagnosia and super-recognition

Russell, R., Chatterjee, G., & Nakayama, K.  (2012). Developmental prosopagnosia and super-recognition: No special role for surface reflectance processing. Neuropsychologia 50,334-340.

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These results do not support the proposal that variation in surface reflectance perception ability is the underlying cause of variation in face recognition ability. Instead, these findings support the idea that face recognition ability is related to neural circuits using representations that integrate shape and pigmentation information.