Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia

	Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia
	Liu, Jiangang 1,4; Li, Jun 2; Feng, Lu 3; Li, Ling1 ; Tian, Jie 2,3; Lee, Kang 4
发表期刊	CORTEX
	2014-04-01
卷号	53 期号:2014 页码:60-77
文章类型	Article
摘要	Face pareidolia is the illusory perception of non-existent faces. The present study, for the first time, contrasted behavioral and neural responses of face pareidolia with those of letter pareidolia to explore face-specific behavioral and neural responses during illusory face processing. Participants were shown pure-noise images but were led to believe that 50% of them contained either faces or letters; they reported seeing faces or letters illusorily 34% and 38% of the time, respectively. The right fusiform face area (rFFA) showed a specific response when participants "saw" faces as opposed to letters in the pure-noise images. Behavioral responses during face pareidolia produced a classification image (CI) that resembled a face, whereas those during letter pareidolia produced a CI that was letter-like. Further, the extent to which such behavioral CIs resembled faces was directly related to the level of face-specific activations in the rFFA. This finding suggests that the rFFA plays a specific role not only in processing of real faces but also in illusory face perception, perhaps serving to facilitate the interaction between bottom-up information from the primary visual cortex and top-down signals from the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Whole brain analyses revealed a network specialized in face pareidolia, including both the frontal and occipitotemporal regions. Our findings suggest that human face processing has a strong top-down component whereby sensory input with even the slightest suggestion of a face can result in the interpretation of a face. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Face Processing Fmri Fusiform Face Area Top-down Processing Face Pareidolia
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	DISTRIBUTED CORTICAL NETWORK ; TOP-DOWN ; INTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS ; SELF-RECOGNITION ; FUNCTIONAL MRI ; BOTTOM-UP ; PERCEPTION ; AREA ; BRAIN ; CORTEX
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Behavioral Sciences ; Neurosciences & Neurology
WOS类目	Behavioral Sciences ; Neurosciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000335101100007
引用统计	被引频次：132[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/4047
专题	中国科学院分子影像重点实验室
通讯作者	Tian, Jie
作者单位	1.Beijing Jiaotong Univ, Sch Comp & Informat Technol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Xidian Univ, Sch Life Sci & Technol, Xian, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Automat, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Toronto, Dr Eric Jackman Inst Child Study, Toronto, ON, Canada
通讯作者单位	中国科学院自动化研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Jiangang,Li, Jun,Feng, Lu,et al. Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia[J]. CORTEX,2014,53(2014):60-77.
APA	Liu, Jiangang,Li, Jun,Feng, Lu,Li, Ling,Tian, Jie,&Lee, Kang.(2014).Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia.CORTEX,53(2014),60-77.
MLA	Liu, Jiangang,et al."Seeing Jesus in toast: Neural and behavioral correlates of face pareidolia".CORTEX 53.2014(2014):60-77.

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