Multimodal investigations of emotional face processing and social trait judgment of faces

H Yu, C Lin, S Sun, R Cao, K Kar… - Annals of the New York …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Faces are among the most important visual stimuli that humans perceive in everyday life.
While extensive literature has examined emotional processing and social evaluations of …

Single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe flexibly shift representations across spatial and memory tasks

T Donoghue, R Cao, CZ Han, CM Holman… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Investigations into how individual neurons encode behavioral variables of interest have
revealed specific representations in single neurons, such as place and object cells, as well …

Neural mechanisms of face familiarity and learning in the human amygdala and hippocampus

R Cao, J Wang, P Brunner, JT Willie, X Li… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Recognizing familiar faces and learning new faces play an important role in social cognition.
However, the underlying neural computational mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we …

Toward a holistic view of value and social processing in the amygdala: Insights from primate behavioral neurophysiology

PT Putnam, SWC Chang - Behavioural brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
Located medially within the temporal lobes, the amygdala is a formation of heterogenous
nuclei that has emerged as a target for investigations into the neural bases of both primitive …

Encoding of facial features by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus

R Cao, X Li, NJ Brandmeir, S Wang - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Faces are salient social stimuli that attract a stereotypical pattern of eye movement. The
human amygdala and hippocampus are involved in various aspects of face processing; …

Face identity coding in the deep neural network and primate brain

J Wang, R Cao, NJ Brandmeir, X Li, S Wang - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
A central challenge in face perception research is to understand how neurons encode face
identities. This challenge has not been met largely due to the lack of simultaneous access to …

A critical period for developing face recognition

J Wang, R Cao, PN Chakravarthula, X Li, S Wang - Patterns, 2024 - cell.com
Face learning has important critical periods during development. However, the
computational mechanisms of critical periods remain unknown. Here, we conducted a series …

Comprehensive social trait judgments from faces in autism spectrum disorder

R Cao, N Zhang, H Yu, PJ Webster… - Psychological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Processing social information from faces is difficult for individuals with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD). However, it remains unclear whether individuals with ASD make high-level …

A neuronal social trait space for first impressions in the human amygdala and hippocampus

R Cao, C Lin, J Hodge, X Li, A Todorov… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
People instantaneously evaluate faces with significant agreement on evaluations of social
traits. However, the neural basis for such rapid spontaneous face evaluation remains largely …

Using multi‐task experiments to test principles of hippocampal function

CZ Han, T Donoghue, R Cao, L Kunz, S Wang… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Investigations of hippocampal functions have revealed a dizzying array of findings, from
lesion‐based behavioral deficits, to a diverse range of characterized neural activations, to …