Category expectations: A differential modulation of the N170 potential for faces and words

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4038-4045

  Aranda, Clara ^a   Madrid, Eduardo ^a   Tudela, Pío ^a   Ruz, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cue validity; Endogenous orienting; ERP; Faces; N170; Stimulus categories; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VALIDITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649442247     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

References (82)

1. Aguirre G.K., Zarahn E., D'Esposito M. An area within human ventral cortex sensitive to "building" stimuli: Evidence and implications. Neuron 1998, 21(2):373-383.
2. Allison, McCarthy, Nobre A., Puce, Belger Human extrastriate visual cortex and the perception of faces, words, numbers, and colors. Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) 1994, 4(5):544-554.
3. Anllo-Vento, Hillyard S.A. Selective attention to the color and direction of moving stimuli electrophysiological correlates of hierarchical feature selection. Perception and Psychophysics 1996, 58(2):191-206.
4. Bentin S., Allison, Puce, Perez, McCarthy Electrophysiological studies of face perception in humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1996, 8(6):551-565.
5. Bentin S., Kutas, Hillyard S.A. Semantic processing and memory for attended and unattended words in dichotic listening: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance 1995, 21(1):54-67.
6. Bentin S., Mouchetant-Rostaing Y., Giard M.H., Echallier J.F., Pernier J. ERP manifestations of processing printed words at different psycholinguistic levels: Time course and scalp distribution. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1999, 11(3):235-260.
7. Binder J.R., Mohr J.P. The topography of callosal reading pathways: A case-control analysis. Brain 1992, 115(6):1807.
8. Brandeis, Lehmann, Michel, Mingrone Mapping event-related brain potential microstates to sentence endings. Brain Topography 1995, 8(2):145-159.
9. Brem S., Lang-Dullenkopf A., Maurer U., Halder P., Bucher K., Brandeis D. Neurophysiological signs of rapidly emerging visual expertise for symbol strings. Neuroreport 2005, 16(1):45-48.
10. Carmel, Bentin S. Domain specificity versus expertise: Factors influencing distinct processing of faces. Cognition 2002, 83(1):1-29.
11. Cauquil, Edmonds, Taylor Is the face-sensitive N170 the only ERP not affected by selective attention?. Neuroreport 2000, 11(10):2167-2171.
12. Chao, Haxby J.V., Martin Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects. Nature Neuroscience 1999, 2(10):913-919. 10.1038/13217.
13. Chao, Martin, Haxby J.V. Are face-responsive regions selective only for faces?. Neuroreport 1999, 10(14):2945-2950.
14. Cohen, Dehaene S., Naccache L., Lehericy S., Dehaene-Lambertz G., Henaff M., et al. The visual word form area: Spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients. Brain 2000, 123(2):291-307. 10.1093/brain/123.2.291.
15. Correa Á., Sanabria D., Spence C., Tudela P., Lupiáñez J. Selective temporal attention enhances the temporal resolution of visual perception: Evidence from a temporal order judgment task. Brain Research 2006, 1070(1):202-205. 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.11.094.
16. Crist R.E., Wu C., Karp C., Woldorff M.G. Face processing is gated by visual spatial attention. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 2008, 1. 10.3389/neuro.09.010.2007.
17. Cristescu, Nobre A. Differential modulation of word recognition by semantic and spatial orienting of attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008, 20(5):787-801.
18. Damasio, Damasio, Van Hoesen Prosopagnosia: Anatomic basis and behavioral mechanisms. Neurology 1982, 32(4):331.
19. Dehaene S., Le Clec'H G., Poline J., Le Bihan D., Cohen The visual word form area: A prelexical representation of visual words in the fusiform gyrus. Neuroreport 2002, 13(3):321-325.
20. Dering B., Martin C.D., Thierry G. Is the N170 peak of visual event-related brain potentials car-selective?. Neuroreport 2009, 20(10):902-906. 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328327201d.
21. Dien J. Issues in the application of the average reference: Review, critiques, and recommendations. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers 1998, 30(1):34-43. DOI:16033, 35400007512347.0030.
22. Donchin E. Surprise!... surprise?. Psychophysiology 1981, 18(5):493-513. 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1981.tb01815.x.
23. Downing P.E., Jiang Y., Shuman M., Kanwisher N. A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body. Science 2001, 293(5539):2470-2473. 10.1126/science.1063414.
24. Duncan J. Selective attention and the organization of visual information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1984, 113(4):501-517.
25. Eimer M. Event-related brain potentials distinguish processing stages involved in face perception and recognition. Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology 2000, 111(4):694-705.
26. Esterman M., Yantis S. Perceptual expectation evokes category-selective cortical activity. Cerebral Cortex 2009, bhp188. 10.1093/cercor/bhp188.
27. Farah M.J. Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us About Normal Vision 1995, MIT Press. new edition.
28. Fodor J.A. The Modularity of Mind 1983, MIT Press.
29. Freire A., Lee K., Symons L.A. The face-inversion effect as a deficit in the encoding of configural information: Direct evidence. Perception 2000, 29(2):159-170.
30. Gauthier I., Behrmann M., Tarr M.J. Are Greebles like faces? Using the neuropsychological exception to test the rule. Neuropsychologia 2004, 42(14):1961-1970. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.025.
31. Gazzaley A., Cooney J.W., McEvoy K., Knight R.T., D'Esposito M. Top-down enhancement and suppression of the magnitude and speed of neural activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(3):507-517. 10.1162/0898929053279522.
32. Haxby J.V., Ungerleider L.G., Clark V.P., Schouten J.L., Hoffman E.A., Martin A. The effect of face inversion on activity in human neural systems for face and object perception. Neuron 1999, 22(1):189-199.
33. Henson, Goshen-Gottstein Y., Ganel T., Otten L., Quayle A., Rugg M.D. Electrophysiological and haemodynamic. Correlates of face perception, recognition and priming. Cerebral Cortex 2003, 13(7):793-805. 10.1093/cercor/13.7.793.
34. Herrmann M.J., Ehlis A., Muehlberger A., Fallgatter A.J. Source localization of early stages of face processing. Brain Topography 2005, 18(2):77-85. 10.1007/s10548-005-0277-7.
35. Hochberg J., Galper R.R. Recognition of faces: An explanatory study. Psychological Science 1967, 9:619-620.
36. Holcomb P.J. Semantic priming and stimulus degradation: Implications for the role of the N400 in language processing. Psychophysiology 1993, 30(1):47-61.
37. Holmes, Vuilleumier P., Eimer M. The processing of emotional facial expression is gated by spatial attention: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. Brain Research. Cognitive Brain Research 2003, 16(2):174-184.
38. Hopfinger J.B., Mangun G. Reflexive attention modulates processing of visual stimuli in human extrastriate cortex. Psychological Science 1998, 9(6):441-447.
39. Itier R.J., Herdman A.T., George N., Cheyne D., Taylor M.J. Inversion and contrast-reversal effects on face processing assessed by MEG. Brain Research 2006, 1115(1):108-120. 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.07.072.
40. Itier R.J., Taylor M.J. N170 or N1? Spatiotemporal Differences between Object and Face Processing Using ERPs. Cerebral Cortex 2004, 14(2):132-142. 10.1093/cercor/bhg111.
41. Jacques, Rossion Early electrophysiological responses to multiple face orientations correlate with individual discrimination performance in humans. NeuroImage 2007, 36(3):863-876. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.04.016.
42. Kanwisher N., McDermott J., Chun M.M. The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of Neuroscience 1997, 17(11):4302-4311.
43. Kramer A.F., Strayer D.L. Assessing the development of automatic processing: An application of dual-task and event-related brain potential methodologies. Biological Psychology 1988, 26(1-3):231-267.
44. Lavie N., Ro T., Russell C. The role of perceptual load in processing distractor faces. Psychological Science: A Journal of the American Psychological Society/APS 2003, 14(5):510-515.
45. Lehmann D., Skrandies W. Reference-free identification of components of checkerboard-evoked multichannel potential fields. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1980, 48(6):609-621.
46. Lepsien J., Nobre A. Attentional modulation of object representations in working memory. Cerebral Cortex 2007, 17(9):2072-2083. 10.1093/cercor/bhl116.
47. Liu J., Harris A., Kanwisher N. Stages of processing in face perception: An MEG study. Nature Neuroscience 2002, 5(9):910-916. 10.1038/nn909.
48. Lueschow A., Sander T., Boehm S.G., Nolte G., Trahms L., Curio G. Looking for faces: Attention modulates early occipitotemporal object processing. Psychophysiology 2004, 41(3):350-360. 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00159.x.
49. Maurer U., Brandeis D., McCandliss B.D. Fast, visual specialization for reading in English revealed by the topography of the N170 ERP response. Behavioral and Brain Functions: BBF 2005, 1:13-113. 10.1186/1744-9081-1-13.
50. McCandliss B.D., Cohen, Dehaene S. The visual word form area: Expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2003, 7(7):293-299.
51. McCarthy, Nobre A. Modulation of semantic processing by spatial selective attention. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1993, 88(3):210-219.
52. McCarthy, Puce, Gore, Allison Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1997, 9(5):605-610.
53. Morgan H.M., Klein, Boehm S.G., Shapiro K.L., Linden D.E.J. Working memory load for faces modulates P300, N170, and N250r. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008, 20(6):989-1002. 10.1162/jocn.2008.20072.
54. Murray M.M., Michel C.M., Grave de Peralta R., Ortigue S., Brunet D., Gonzalez Andino S., et al. Rapid discrimination of visual and multisensory memories revealed by electrical neuroimaging. NeuroImage 2004, 21(1):125-135.
55. Murray M.M., Wylie G.R., Higgins B.A., Javitt D.C., Schroeder C.E., Foxe J.J. The spatiotemporal dynamics of illusory contour processing: Combined high-density electrical mapping, source analysis, and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The Journal of Neuroscience: The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2002, 22(12):5055-5073.
56. Nobre A. Orienting attention to instants in time. Neuropsychologia 2001, 39(12):1317-1328. 10.1016/S0028-3932(01)00120-8.
57. Nobre A., Allison, McCarthy Word recognition in the human inferior temporal lobe. Nature 1994, 372(6503):260-263. 10.1038/372260a0.
58. Nobre A., Allison, McCarthy Modulation of human extrastriate visual processing by selective attention to colours and words. Brain: A Journal of Neurology 1998, 121(Pt 7):1357-1368.
59. Pascual-Marqui R.D., Michel, Lehmann D. Segmentation of brain electrical activity into microstates: Model estimation and validation. IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering 1995, 42(7):658-665. 10.1109/10.391164.
60. Perrin, Pernier J., Bertrand O., Echallier J.F. Spherical splines for scalp potential and current density mapping. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1989, 72(2):184-187.
61. Polk T.A., Farah M.J. Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2002, 131(1):65-72.
62. Posner M. Orienting of attention. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 1980, 32(1):3-25.
63. Price C.J., Devlin J. The myth of the visual word form area. NeuroImage 2003, 19(3):473-481.
64. Puri A.M., Wojciulik E. Expectation both helps and hinders object perception. Vision Research 2008, 48(4):589-597. 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.017.
65. Puri A.M., Wojciulik E., Ranganath C. Category expectation modulates baseline and stimulus-evoked activity in human inferotemporal cortex. Brain Research 2009, 1301:89-99. 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.08.085.
66. Rayner K., Pollatsek A. The Psychology of Reading 1989, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
67. Riesenhuber M., Poggio T. Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex. Nature Neuroscience 1999, 2(11):1019-1025. 10.1038/14819.
68. Rossion, Gauthier, Tarr, Despland, Bruyer, Linotte, et al. The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: An electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain. Neuroreport 2000, 11(1):69-74.
69. Rossion B., Delvenne J.F., Debatisse D., Goffaux V., Bruyer R., Crommelinck M., et al. Spatio-temporal localization of the face inversion effect: An event-related potentials study. Biological Psychology 1999, 50(3):173-189.
70. Rushworth M.F.S., Johansen-Berg H., Göbel S.M., Devlin J. The left parietal and premotor cortices: Motor attention and selection. NeuroImage 2003, 20(Suppl. 1):S89-S100.
71. Ruz, Nobre Attention modulates initial stages of visual word processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008, 20(9):1727-1736. 10.1162/jocn.2008.20119.
72. Ruz M., Nobre A. Dissociable top-down anticipatory neural states for different linguistic dimensions. Neuropsychologia 2008, 46(4):1151-1160. 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.10.021.
73. Schneider W., Eschman A., Zuccolotto A. E-Prime User's Guide 2002, Psychology Software Tools, Inc., Pittsburg.
74. Scholl B. Objects and attention: The state of the art. Cognition 2001, 80(1-2). 46, 1.
75. Sreenivasan K.K., Goldstein J.M., Lustig A.G., Rivas L.R., Jha A.P. Attention to faces modulates early face processing during low but not high face discriminability. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 2009, 71(4):837-846. 10.3758/APP.71.4.837.
76. Sreenivasan K.K., Jha A.P. Selective attention supports working memory maintenance by modulating perceptual processing of distractors. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2007, 19(1):32-41. 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.1.32.
77. Tarkiainen A., Helenius P., Hansen P.C., Cornelissen P.L., Salmelin R. Dynamics of letter string perception in the human occipitotemporal cortex. Brain: A Journal of Neurology 1999, 122(Pt 11):2119-2132.
78. Thierry G., Martin C.D., Downing P., Pegna A.J. Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity. Nature Neuroscience 2007, 10(4):505-511. 10.1038/nn1864.
79. Tucker D.M., Liotti M., Potts G.F., Russell G.S., Posner M.I. Spatiotemporal analysis of brain electrical fields. Human Brain Mapping 1994, 1(2):134-152. 10.1002/hbm.460010206.
80. Warrington E.K., Shallice T. Word-form dyslexia. Brain: A Journal of Neurology 1980, 103(1):99-112.
81. Watanabe S., Kakigi R., Koyama S., Kirino E. Human face perception traced by magneto- and electro-encephalography. Cognitive Brain Research 1999, 8(2):125-142. 10.1016/S0926-6410(99)00013-0.
82. Yin R.K. Looking at upside-down faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1969, 81(1):141-145.