All Publications (Papers)

Also have a look at our chapters (including reviews on prosopagnosia, other-race face effect, neuroimaging of face perception, N170, ...).

2024/in press

Angelini, L., Jacques, C., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B., & Jonas, J. (2024). Bidirectional and Cross-Hemispheric Modulations of Face-Selective Neural Activity Induced by Electrical Stimulation within the Human Cortical Face Network. Brain sciences, 14(9), 906. PDF

REVIEW  Rossion, B., Jacques, C., Jonas, J. (2024). The anterior fusiform gyrus: the ghost in the cortical face machine. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 158:105535. PDF

Angelini, L., Volfart, A., Jacques, C., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Rossion, B., & Jonas, J. (2024). Effective connectivity of functional brain regions through concurrent intracerebral electrical stimulation and frequency-tagged visual presentation. Brain stimulation, 17, 726–729.  PDF

Hagen, S., Laguesse, R., Rossion, B. (2024). Extensive visual training in Adulthood reduces an Implicit Neural Marker of the Face Inversion Effect. Brain Sciences, 2024, 14(2), 146. PDF

Volfart, A., Rossion, B., Brissart, H., Busigny, T., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Jonas, J. (2024). Stability of face recognition abilities after left or right anterior  temporal lobectomy. Journal of Neuropsychology, 1:115-133 PDF

Lochy, A., Rossion, B., Lambon Ralph, M., Volfart, A., Hauk, O., Schiltz, C. (2024). Linguistic and attentional factors – not statistical regularities – contribute to word-selective neural responses with FPVS-oddball paradigms. Cortex, 173, 339-354. PDF

David, J., Koessler, L., Rossion, B. (2024). A robust neural index of automatic generalization across variable natural views of familiar face identities. Visual Cognition, 31, 571-583.  PDF.

2023

Volfart, A., Rossion, B., Yan, X., Angelini, L., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., & Jonas, J. (2023). Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the face-selective right lateral fusiform gyrus transiently impairs face identity recognition. Neuropsychologia, 190, 108705. PDF

Rossion, B., Jacques, C., Jonas, J. (2023). Intracerebral electrophysiological recordings to understand the neural basis of human face recognition. Brain Sciences, 13(2): 354. PDF

Quian Quiroga, R., Boscaglia, M., Jonas, J., Rey, H.G., Yan, X., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Koessler, L., Rossion, B. (2023). Single neuron responses underlying face recognition in the human midfusiform face-selective cortex. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5661. PDF

Yan, X., Volfart, A., & Rossion, B. (2023). A neural marker of the human face identity familiarity effect. Scientific reports13, 16294. PDF

Retter, T.L., Gao, Y., Jiang, F., Rossion, B. Webster, M. (2023). Automatic, early color-specific neural responses to object color knowledge. Brain Topography, 36, 710-726. PDF

Laurent, M.-A., Audurier, P., De Castro, V., Gao, X., Durand, J.-P., Jonas, J., Rossion, B., Cottereau, B. (2023). Towards an optimization of functional localizers in non-human primate neuroimaging with (fMRI) frequency-tagging. NeuroImage, 270:119959. PDF

Hemptinne, C., Hupin, N., Lefèvre, P., Yuksel, D., Rossion, B. (2023). Spatial resolution evaluation based on experienced visual categories with sweep evoked periodic EEG activity. Investigative ophthalmology and visual science (IOVS), 64(3):17. PDF

2022

Jacques, C., Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B. (2022). Low and high frequency intracranial neural signals match in the human associative cortex. eLife, 11, e76544. PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2022). Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part I: function. Neuropsychologia, 173: 108278. PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2022). Twenty years of investigation with the case of prosopagnosia PS to understand human face identity recognition. Part II: neural basis. Neuropsychologia, 173: 108279. PDF

Gao, X., Wen, M., Sun, M., Rossion, B. (2022). A Genuine Interindividual Variability in Number and Anatomical Localization of Face-Selective Regions in the Human Brain. Cerebral Cortex. bhab519. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhab519. PDF

Liu-Shuang, J., Yu-Fang, Y., Rossion, B., Goffaux, V. (2022). Natural contrast statistics facilitate human face categorization. eNeuro.

Peykarjou, S., Hoehl, S., Baccolo, L, Langeloh, M., Rossion, B, Pauen, S. (2022). Superior neural individuation of mother’s than stranger’s faces by five months of age. Cortex, 155, 264-276. PDF

Poncet, F., Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Damon, F. Dzhelyova, M., Schaal, B., Durand, K., Faivre, L., Rossion, B., Baudouin, J.Y. (2022). A neural marker of rapid discrimination of facial expression in 3.5- and 7-month-old infants. Frontiers in Neuroscience. PDF

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Brochard, R., Rossion, B., Leleu, A. (2022). Rapid neural categorization of facelike objects predicts the perceptual awareness of a face (face pareidolia). Cognition, 222:105016. PDF

Volfart, A., Yan, X., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Hossu, G., Rossion, B., Jonas, J. (2022). Intracerebral electrical stimulation of the right anterior fusiform gyrus impairs human face identity recognition. Neuroimage, 250:118932. PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B., & Lochy, A. (2022). Is human face recognition lateralized to the right hemisphere due to neural competition with  left-lateralized visual word recognition? A critical review. Brain Structure and Function, 227, 599-629. PDF

Yan, X., Goffaux, V., & Rossion, B. (2022). Coarse-to-fine(r) automatic familiar face recognition in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 32, 1560-1573. PDF

 

2021

Retter, T. L., Jiang, F., Webster, M. A., Michel, C., Schiltz, C., & Rossion, B. (2021). Varying Stimulus Duration Reveals Consistent Neural Activity and Behavior for Human Face Individuation. Neuroscience, 472, 138–156.

REVIEW Jonas, J., & Rossion, B. (2021). Intracerebral electrical stimulation to understand the neural basis of human face identity recognition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 54, 4297-4511. PDF

Hagen, S., Lochy, A., Jacques, C., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Jonas, J., Rossion, B. (2021). Dissociated face- and word-selective intracerebral responses in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Brain Structure and Function, 226, 3031-3049. PDF

Retter, T. L., Rossion, B., & Schiltz, C. (2021). Harmonic Amplitude Summation for Frequency-tagging Analysis. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 33, 2372–2393. PDF

Volfart, A., Rice, G. E., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Rossion, B. (2021). Implicit, automatic semantic word categorisation in the left occipito-temporal cortex as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. NeuroImage, 238, 118228. PDF

Hauk, O., Rice, G. E., Volfart, A., Magnabosco, F., Ralph, M., & Rossion, B. (2021). Face-selective responses in combined EEG/MEG recordings with fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS). NeuroImage, 242, 118460. PDF

Rekow, D., Baudouin, J.-Y., Poncet, F., Damon, F., Durand, K., Schaal, B., Rossion, B., Leleu, A. (2021). Smells like real faces: Odor-driven face pareidolia in the infant brain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 118(21)e20214979118. PDF

Quek, G. L., Rossion, B., & Liu-Shuang, J. (2021). Critical information thresholds underlying generic and familiar face categorisation at the same face encounter. NeuroImage, 243, 118481. PDF

Barbero, F., Calce, R., Talwar, S., Rossion, B., Collignon, O. (2021). A robust voice-selective response in the human brain as revealed by electrophysiological recordings and fast periodic auditory stimulation. eNeuro. 8(3). 0471-20.2021. PDF

Matt, S., Dzhelyova, M., Maillard, L., Lighezzolo-Alnot, J., Rossion, B., & Caharel, S. (2021). The rapid and automatic categorization of facial expression changes in highly variable natural images. Cortex, 144, 168–184. PDF

COMMENTARY Rossion, B. (2021). What are superior face identity recognizers (SFIR) made of?  Neuropsychologia, 158:107807. PDF

Or, C., Retter, T.L., Rossion, B. (2021). Does automatic human face categorization depend on head orientation? Cortex, 141, 94-111. PDF

van de Walle de Ghelcke, A, Rossion, B, Schiltz C, Lochy A. (2021). Developmental changes in letter-selective neural sensitivity: a one-year follow-up of beginning readers. Developmental Science, 00:e12999. PDF

REVIEW Caharel, S. & Rossion, B. (2021). The N170 is sensitive to long-term (personal) familiarity of a face identity. Neuroscience, 448, 244-255. PDF

2020

Yan, X, & Rossion, B. (2020). A robust neural familiar face recognition response in a dynamic (periodic) stream of unfamiliar faces. Cortex, 132, 281-295. PDF

Volfart, A., Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Busigny, T., Rossion, B., Brissart, H. (2020). Typical visual unfamiliar face individuation in left and right mesial temporal epilepsy. Neuropsychologia, 147: 107583. PDF

COMMENTARY Rossion, B. (2020). Are facing body dyads as special as (single) faces for the human brain? Cortex. PDF

Towler, J., Fisher, K., Rossion, B., & Eimer, M. (2020). Neural responses in a fast periodic visual stimulation paradigm reveal domain-general visual discrimination deficits in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 133, 76-102. PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B., Retter, T.L., Liu-Shuang, J. (2020). Understanding human individuation of unfamiliar faces with oddball fast periodic visual stimulation and electroencephalography. European Journal of Neuroscience, 52, 4283-4334. PDF

Rekow, D., Durand, K, Baudouin, J.-Y., Leleu, A. (2020). Categorization of objects and faces in the infant brain and its sensitivity to maternal odor: further evidence for the role of intersensory congruency in perceptual development. Cognitive Development, 55, 100930. PDF

Bottari, D., Dormal, G., Bernaya, E., Villwock, A., Dzhelyova, M., Grin, K., Pietrini, P., Ricciardi, E., Rossion, B., Roeder, B. (2020). EEG frequency-tagging demonstrates increased left hemispheric involvement and crossmodal plasticity for face processing in congenitally deaf signers. NeuroImage, 223:117315. PDF

Jacques, C.*, Rossion, B.*, Volfart, A., Brissart, H., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Jonas, J. (2020). The neural basis of rapid unfamiliar face individuation with human intracerebral recordings. NeuroImage, 221, 117174. PDF

REVIEW  Rossion, B., & Retter, T.L. (2020). Face Perception. In: D. Poeppel, M.S. Gazzaniga & G. Mangun (Eds). The Cognitive Neurosciences, Sixth Edition, ch.11, pp.129-139. PDF

Retter, T., Jiang, F., Webster, M.A., Rossion, B. (2020). All-or-none visual categorization in the human brain. NeuroImage, 213:116685, 1-16 PDF  

Leleu, A., Rekow, D., Poncet, F., Schaal, B., Durand, K., Rossion, B., Baudouin, J.-Y. (2020). Maternal odor shapes rapid face categorization in the infant brain. Developmental Science. 23:e12877. PDF

Lochy, A., Schiltz, C., Rossion, B. (2020). The right hemispheric dominance for face perception in preschool children depends on visual discrimination level. Developmental Science. 23(3):e12914. PDF

Yan, X., Zimmermann, F., Rossion, B. (2020). An implicit neural familiar face identity recognition response across widely variable natural views in the human brain. Cognitive Neuroscience, 21, 1-14. PDF

van de Walle de Ghelcke, A, Rossion B, Schiltz C, Lochy A. (2020). Impact of Learning to Read in a Mixed Approach on Neural Tuning to Words in Beginning Readers. Front Psychol. 10:3043. PDF

COMMENTARY Rossion, B. (2020). Biomarkers of face perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: time to shift to fast periodic visual stimulation with electroencephalography? Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5, 258-260. PDF

Dzhelyova, M., Schiltz, C., Rossion, B. (2020). The Relationship Between the Benton Face Recognition Test and Electrophysiological Unfamiliar Face Individuation Response as Revealed by Fast Periodic Stimulation. Perception, 49, 201-221. PDF

Rekow, D., Durand, K., Baudouin, J.-Y Rossion, B., Leleu, A. (2020). An ecological measure of rapid and automatic face-sex categorization. Cortex, 127, 150-161. PDF

Volfart, A., Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B. (2020). Neurophysiological evidence for crossmodal (face-name) person-identity representation in the human left ventral temporal cortex. PLOS Biology.18(4): e3000659. PDF

Hagen, S., Jacques, C., Maillard, L, Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B., Jonas, J. (2020). Spatially dissociated intracerebral maps for face- and house-selective activity in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 4026-4043. PDF

Jacques, C., Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B., Koessler, L. (2020). Fast periodic visual stimulation to highlight the relationship between human intracerebral recordings and scalp electroencephalography. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 2373-2388. PDF

Vettori, S., Dzhelyova, M., Van der Donck, S., Jacques, C., Steyaert, J., Rossion, B., & Boets B. (2020). Frequency-tagging EEG of superimposed social and non-social visual streams reveals reduced saliency of social information in boys with autism. Frontiers Psychiatry, 11:332. PDF

van de Walle de Ghelcke, A, Rossion, B, Schiltz C, Lochy A. (2020). Developmental changes in letter-selective neural sensitivity: a one-year follow-up of beginning readers. Developmental Science, 00:e12999.PDF

 

2019

Dzhelyova, M., Jacques, C., Dormal, G., Michel, C., Schiltz, C., Rossion, B. (2019). High test-retest reliability of a neural index of rapid automatic discrimination of unfamiliar individual faces. Visual Cognition, 27, 127-141. PDF

Zimmerman, F*., Yan, X*., Rossion, B. (2019). An objective, sensitive and ecologically-valid neural measure of rapid human individual face recognition. Royal Society Open Science, vol.6. PDF

Gao, X., Vuong, Q.C., Rossion, B. (2019). The cortical face network of the prosopagnosic patient PS with fast periodic stimulation in fMRI. Cortex, 119, 528-542.PDF

Luo, Q., Rossion, B., Dzhelyova, M. (2019). A robust implicit measure of facial attracitveness discrimination. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), 14, 737-746.PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B., & Taubert, J. (2019). What can we learn about human individual face recognition from experimental studies in monkeys? Vision Research, 157, 142-158. PDF

Vanderdonck, S., Dzhelyova, M., Vettori, S., Thielen, H., Steyaert, J., Rossion, B., & Boets, B. (2019). Fast periodic visual stiulation EEG reveals reduced neural sensitivity to fearful faces in children with Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 4658-4673.PDF

Lochy, A., de Heering, A., Rossion, B. (2019). The non-linear development of the right hemispheric specialization for human face perception. Neuropsychologia, 126, 10-19. PDF

Poncet, F., Baudouin, J.Y., Dzhelyova, M., Rossion, B., & Leleu, A. (2019). Rapid and automatic discrimination between facial expressions in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 129, 47-55.PDF.

Yan, X., Liu-Shuang, J., & Rossion B. (2019). Effect of face-related task on rapid individual face discrimination. Neuropsychologia, 129, 236-245.PDF

Vettori, S., Dzhelyova, M., Van der Donck, S., Jacques, C., Steyaert, J., & Rossion, B., & Boets, B. (2019). Reduced neural sensitivity to rapid individual face discrimination in autism spectrum disorder. Neuroimage Clinical. PDF

Or, C. C.-F., Retter, T. L. & Rossion, B. (2019). The contribution of colour information to rapid face categorization in natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 19(5): 20. PDF

Vettori, S., Jacques, C. Boets, B., & Rossion, B. (2019). Can the N170 be used as an electrophysiological biomarker indexing face processing difficulties in ASD? Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 4, 321-323. PDF

Jacques, C., Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Koessler, L., & Rossion, B. (2019). The inferior occipital gyrus as a major cortical source of the face-evoked N170: evidence from simultaneous scalp and intracerebral human recordings. Human Brain Mapping, 40, 1403-1419. PDF

 

2018

Leleu, A., Dzhelyova, M., Rossion, B., Brochard, R., Durand, K., Schaal, B., Baudouin, J.Y. (2018). Tuning functions for automatic detection of brief changes of facial expression in the human brain. NeuroImage, 179, 235-251. PDF

Billino, J., Van Belle, G., Rossion, B., & Schwarzer, G. (2018). The nature of individual face recognition in preschool children: insights from a gaze-contingency paradigm. Cognitive Development, 47, 168-180. PDF

Feuerriegel, D., Keage, H.,  Rossion, B., Quek, G. (2018). Immediate stimulus repetition abolishes stimulus expectation and surprise effects in fast periodic visual oddball designs. Biological Psychology, 138, 110-125. PDF

REVIEW  Rossion, B., Jacques, C., Jonas, J. (2018). Mapping face categorization in the human ventral occipito-temporal cortex with direct neural intracranial recordings. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1426, 5-24. PDF 

Lochy, A.*, Jacques, C.*, Maillard, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Rossion, B., Jonas, J. (2018). Selective visual representation of letters and words in the left ventral occipito-temporal recordings with intracerebral recordings. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, E7595-E7604. PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2018). Damasio's error - Prosopagnosia with intact within-category object recognition. Journal of Neuropsychology, 12, 357-388. PDF

Gao, X., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2018). Fast periodic stimulation: a highly effective approach in fMRI brain mapping. Brain Structure and Function, 223, 2433-2454.PDF

COMMENTARY Rossion, B. (2018). Humans are visual experts at unfamiliar face recognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 471-472.PDF

Quek, G.L.*, Liu-Shuang, J.*, Goffaux, V., Rossion, B. (2018). Ultra-coarse, single glance face detection in a dynamic visual stream. NeuroImage, 176, 465-476. PDF

COMMENTARY Rossion, B. (2018). Prosopdysgnosia? What could it tell us about the neural organization of face and object recognition? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35, 98-101. PDF

Retter, T. L., Jiang, F., Webster, M. A. & Rossion, B. (2018). Dissociable effects of inter-stimulus interval and presentation duration on rapid face categorization. Vision Research, 145, 11-20.  PDF

Rossion, B. & Michel, C. (2018). Normative accuracy and response time data for the computerized Benton Facial Recognition Test (BFRT-c). Behavior Research Methods, 50, 2442-2460. PDF

Hemptinne, C., Liu-Shuang, J., Yuksel, D., Rossion, B. (2018). Rapid Objective Assessment of Contrast Sensitivity and Visual Acuity With Sweep Visual Evoked Potentials and an Extended Electrode Array. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 59, 1144-1157. PDF

Lithfous, S., & Rossion, B. (2018). Electrophysiological individual face adaptation effects with fast periodic visual stimulation resits long interruptions in adaptation. Biological Psychology, 133, 4-9.  PDF

Jonas, J., Brissart, H., Hossu, G., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vignal, J.-P., Rossion, B., Maillard, L. (2018). A face identity hallucination (palinopsia) generated by intracerebral stimulation of the face-selective right lateral fusiform cortex. Cortex, 99, 296-310. PDF

Taubert, J., VanBelle, G., Vogels, R., & Rossion, B. (2018). The impact of stimulus size and orientation on individual face coding in monkey face-selective cortex. Scientific Reports, 8(1):10339. PDF

Quek, G.L., Nemrodov, D., Rossion, B., Liu-Shuang, J. (2018). Selective attention to faces in a rapid visual stream: hemispheric differences in enhancement and suppression of category-selective neural activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30, 393-410. PDF

Lochy, A., Zimmermann, F., Laguesse, R., Willenbockel, V., Rossion, B., Vuong, Q. (2018). Does extensive training at individuating novel objects in adulthood lead to visual expertise? The role of facelikenes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 30, 449-467. PDF

 

2017

COMMENTARY Rossion, B., & Taubert, J. (2017). Commentary: the code for facial identity in the primate brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.11:550. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00550 PDF

Peykarjou, S., Hoehl, S., Pauen, S., Rossion, B. (2017). Rapid categorization of human and ape faces in 9-month-old infants revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. Scientific Reports, 7(1):12526. PDF

Quek, G., Rossion, B. (2017). Category-selective human brain processes elicited in fast periodic visual stimulation streams are immune to temporal predictability. Neuropsychologia, 104, 182-200. PDF

Benetti, S., van Ackeren, M.J., Rabini, G., Zonca, J., Foa, V., Baruffaldi, F., Resz, M., Pavani, F., Rossion, B., Collignon, O. (2017). Fucntional selectivity for face processing in the temporal voice area of early deaf individuals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 114(31):E6437-E6446PDF

Xu, B., Liu-Shuang, J., Rossion, B., Tanaka, J.W. (2017). Individual differences in face identity processing with fast periodic visual stimulation. Journal of Cognittive Neuroscience, 29, 1368-1377.PDF

Retter, T. L. & Rossion, B. (2017). Visual adaptation reveals an objective electrophysiological measure of high-level individual face discrimination. Scientific Reports, 7:3269, 1-10. PDF

Vuong, Q., Willenbockel, V., Zimmermann, F.G.S., Lochy, A., Laguesse, R., Dryden, A., Rossion, B. (2017). Facelikeness matters: a parametric multipart object set to understand the role of spatial configuration in visual recognition. Visual Cognition, 24, 406-421. PDF

Gentile, F., Ales, J., & Rossion, B. (2017). Being BOLD: the neural dynamics of face perception. Human Brain Mapping.38, 120-139. PDF

Dzhelyova, M., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2017). At a single glance: fast periodic visual stimulation uncovers the spatio-temporal dynamics of brief facial expression changes in the human brain. Cerebral Cortex, 27, 4106-4123. PDF

Palermo, R., Rossion, B., Rhodes, G., Laguesse, R., Tez, T., Hall, B., Albonico, A., Malaspina, M., Daini, R., Irons, J., Al-Janabi, S., Taylor, L.C., Rivolta, D., McKone, E. (2017). Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 218-233. PDF

 

2016

Ramon, M., Busigny, T., Gosselin, F., Rossion, B. (2016). All new kids on the block? Impaired holistic processing of personnally familiar faces in a kindergarten teach with acquired prosopagnosia. Visual Cognition, 24, 321-355. PDF

Retter, T.L. & Rossion, B. (2016). Uncovering the neural magnitude and spatio-temporal dynamics of natural image categorization in a fast visual stream. Neuropsychologia, 91, 9-28. [PDF]

Weiner, K., Jonas, J., Gomez, J., Maillard, L., Brissart, H., Hossu, G., Jacques, C., Loftus, D., Colnat-Coubois, S., Stigliani, A., Barnett, M., Grill-Spector, K. Rossion, B. (2016). The face-processing network is resilient to focal resection of human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience,  36, 8425-8440.PDF

Lochy, A., Van Reybroeck, M., Rossion, B. (2016). Left cortical specialization for visual letter strings predicts rudimentary knowledge of letter-sound association in preschoolers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 113, 8544-8549. [PDF]

Jonas, J.*, Jacques, C.*, Liu-Shuang, J., Brissart, H., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Rossion, B. (2016). A face-selective ventral occipito-temporal map of the human brain with intracerebral potentials. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 113, E4088-E4097. [PDF]

Jacques, C.*, Retter, T.L.*, Rossion, B. (2016). A single glance at a face generates larger and qualitatively different category-selective spatio-temporal signatures than other ecologically-relevant categories in the human brain. NeuroImage, 137, 21-33. [PDF]

Deouell, L.Y., Grill-Spector, K., Malach, R., Murray, M.M., Rossion, B. (2016). Introduction to the special issue on functional selectivity in perceptual and cognitive systems - a tribute to Shlomo Bentin (1946-2012). Neuropsychologia, 83, 1-4. [PDF]

Lavallée, M.M., Gandini, D., Rouleau, I., Vallet, G.T., Joanette, M., Kergoat, M.J., Busigny, T., Rossion, B., Joubert, S. (2016). A qualitative impairment in face perception in Alzheimer's disease: evidence from a reduced face inversion effect. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 51, 1225-1236. [PDF]

Retter, T. L. & Rossion, B. (2016). Visual adaptation provides objective electrophysiological evidence of facial identity discrimination. Cortex, 80, 35-50. [PDF]

Liu-Shuang, J., Torfs, K., Rossion, B. (2016). An objective electrophysiological marker of face individualisation impairment in acquired prosopagnosia with fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 83, 100-113. [PDF]

Alp, N., Kogo, N., Van Belle, G., Wagemans, J., Rossion, B. (2016). Frequency tagging yields an objective neural signature of Getalt formation. Brain and Cognition, 104, 15-24. [PDF]

 

2015

Nemrodov, D., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2015). Temporal dynamics of repetition suppression to individual faces presented at a fast periodic rate. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 98, 35-43.[PDF]

Jonas, J., Rossion, B., Brissart, H., Frismand, S., Jacques, C., Hossu, G., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vespignani, Vignal, Maillard, L. (2015). Beyond the core face-processing network: intracerebral stimulation of a face-slective area in the right anterior fusiform gyrus elicits transient prosopagnosia. Cortex, 72,140-155. [PDF] [VIDEOS]

Ramon, M., Vizioli, L., Liu-Shuang, J., Rossion, B. (2015). Neural microgenesis of personal familiar face recognition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 112, E4835-44. [PDF]

de Heering, A. & Rossion, B. (2015). Rapid categorization of natural face images in the infant right hemisphere. eLife 2015;4;e06564. [PDF]

Taubert, J., Van Belle, G., Vanduffel, W., Rossion, B., & Vogels, R. (2015). Neural correlate of the Thatcher face illusion in a monkey face-selective patch. Journal of Neuroscience, 35, 9872-9878.[PDF]

Retter, T.L. & Rossion, B. (2015). Global shape information increases but color information decreases the composite face effect. Perception, 44, 511–528. [PDF] [STIMULI]

REVIEW Norcia, A.M., Appelbaum, L.G., Ales, J.M., Cottereau, B., Rossion, B. (2015). The steady-state visual evoked potential in vision research: a review. Journal of Vision, 15(6):4, 1-46. [PDF]

Rossion, B. & Retter, T.L. (2015). Holistic face perception: mind the gap ! Visual Cognition, 23, 379-398. [PDF] [STIMULI]

Jiang, F., Badler, J., Righi, G., Rossion, B. (2015). Category search speeds up face-selective fMRI responses in a non-hierarchical cortical face network. Cortex, 66, 69-80.[PDF]

Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J.M., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2015). Separable effects of inversion and contrast reversal on face detection thresholds and reponse functions: a sweep VEP study. Journal of Vision, 10;15(2). pii: 11. doi: 10.1167/15.2.11. [PDF]

Caharel, S., Collet, K., & Rossion, B. (2015). The early visual encoding of a face (N170) is viewpoint-dependent: a parametric ERP-adaptation study. Biological Psychology, 106, 18-27. [PDF]

Quadflieg, S., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2015). The neural basis of perceiving person interactions. Cortex, 70, 5-20.[PDF]

Taubert, J., Van Belle, G., Vanduffel, W., Rossion, B., Vogels, R. (2015). The effect of face inversion for neurons inside and outside fMRI-defined face-selective cortical regions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 1644-1655.[PDF]

Dormal, G., Lepore, F., Harissi-Dagher, Albouy, G., Bertone, A., Rossion, B., Collignon, O. (2015). Tracking the evolution of crossmodal plasticity and visual functions before and after sight restoration. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113, 1727-1742.[PDF]

Van Belle, G., Lefevre, P., & Rossion, B. (2015). Face inversion and acquired prosopagnosia reduce the size of the perceptual field of view. Cognition, 136, 403-408. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Torfs, K., Jacques, C., Liu-Shuang, J.  (2015). Fast periodic presentation of natural face images reveals a robust face-selective electrophysiological response in the human brain. Journal of Vision, 15, 1, 18. [PDFNatural Face Stimuli used in the study

Lochy, A., Van Belle, G., & Rossion, B. (2015). A robust index of lexical representation in the left occipito-temporal cortex as evidenced by EEG responses to fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 66, 18-31. [PDF]

Liu-Shuang, J., Ales, J.M., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2015). The effect of contrast polarity reversal on face detection: evidence of perceptual asymmetry from sweep VEP. Vision Research, 108, 8-19. [PDF]

 

2014

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding face perception by means of prosopagnosia and neuroimaging. Frontiers in Bioscience (Elite Ed.); 6-308-317. [PDF]

Jonas, J., Rossion, B., Krieg, J., Koessler, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Maillard, L., Frismand, S., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vignal, J.-P., Vespignani, H., Jacques, C., Brissart, H., Maillard, L. (2014). Intracerebral electrical stimulation of a face-selective area in the right inferior occipital cortex impairs individual face discrimination. NeuroImage, 99, 487-497. [PDF] [videos]

Dzhelyova, M. & Rossion, B. (2014). The effect of parametric stimulus size variation on individual face discrimination indexed by fast periodic visual stimuliation. BMC Neuroscience, 15:87, 1-12. [PDF]

Dzhelyova, M. & Rossion, B. (2014). Supra-additive contribution of shape and surface information to individual face discrimination as revealed by fast periodic visual stimulation. Journal of Vision14(14):15, 1–14. [PDF]

Boremanse, A., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2014). Dissociation of part-based and integrated neural responses to faces by means of EEG frequency-tagging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 40, 2987-2997. [PDF][video].

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding face perception by means of human electrophysiology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences18, 310-318. [PDF

Jonas, J., Maillard, L., Frismand, S., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Vignal, J.-P. (2014). Self-face hallucination evoked by electrical stimulation of the human brain. Neurology83(4), 336-338. [PDF] [videos]

Jonas, J., Frismand, S., Vignal, J.-P., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Koessler, L., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Maillard, L.  (2014). Right hemispheric dominance of visual phenomena evoked by intracerebral stimulation of the human visual cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 35, 3360-3371. [PDF

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2014). Understanding individual face discrimination by means of fast periodic visual stimulation. Experimental Brain Research 232, 1599-1621. [PDF

Busigny, T., Van Belle, G., Jemel, B., Hosein, A., Joubert, S., Rossion, B. (2014). Face-specific impairment in holistic perception following focal lesion of the right anterior temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia56, 312-333. [PDF

Gentile, F., & Rossion, B. (2014). Temporal frequency tuning of cortical face-sensitive areas for individual face perception. NeuroImage, 90, 256-265. [PDF]

Liu-Shuang, J., Norcia, A.M.,  Rossion, B. (2014). An objective index of individual face discrimination in the right occipito-temporal cortex by means of fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 52, 57-72. [PDF]

Caharel, S., Ramon, M., Rossion, B. (2014). Face familiarity decisions take 200ms in the human brain: electrophysiological evidence from a go/no-go speeded task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience26, 81-95. [PDF]

 

2013

Michel, C., Rossion, B., Bülthoff, I, Hayward, W., Vuong, Q. (2013). The contribution of shape and surface information in the other-race face effect. Visual Cognition, 21, 1202-1223.  [PDF]

Laguesse, R. & Rossion, B. (2013). Face perception is whole or none: disentangling the role of spatial contiguity and inter-features distances in the composite face illusionPerception, 42, 1013-1026. [PDF]

Prieto, E.A, Van Belle, G., Liu-Shuang, J., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2013). The 6Hz fundamental frequency rate for individual face discirmination in the right occipito-temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 51, 2863-2975. [PDF]

Boremanse, A., Norcia, A.M., Rossion, B. (2013). An objective signature for visual binding of face parts in the human brain. Journal of Vision (11):6, 1-18.[PDF][video].

Rossion, B. (2013). The composite face illusion: a whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception. Visual Cognition, 21, 139-253. [PDF] [table_of_ contentsee our WEBPAGE, and our COMPOSITE FACE STIMULI

Bukowski, H., Dricot, L., Hanseeuw, B., & Rossion, B. (2013). Cerebral lateralization of face-sensitive areas in left-handers: only the FFA does not get in right. Cortex, 49, 2853-2859. [PDF]

Kovács, G.,  Zimmer, M., Volberg, G., Lavric, I., Rossion, B. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of visual adaptation and sensory competition. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1488-1496. [PDF]

Quadflieg, S., Vermeulen, N., & Rossion, B. (2013). Differential Reliance on the Duchenne Marker During Smile Evaluations and Person Judgments. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37, 69-77. [PDF

 

2012

 

Ales, J., Farzin, F., Rossion, B., Norcia, A.M. (2012). An objective method for measuring face detection thresholds using the sweep steady-state evoked response. Journal of Vision, 12(10):18, 1–18. [PDF]

de Heering, A. Aljuhanay, A., Rossion, B., Pascalis, O. (2012). Early deafness increases the face inversion effect but does not modulate the composite face effect. Front Psychol. 2012;3:124 [PDF]

de Heering, A., Rossion, B., Maurer, D. (2012). Developmental changes in face recognition during childhood: evidence from upright and inverted faces. Cognitive Development, 27, 17-27. [PDF]

Jonas, J., Descoins, M., Koessler, L., Colnat-Coulbois, S., Sauvee, M., Guye, M., Vignal, J-P., Vespignani, H., Rossion, B., Maillard, L. (2012). Focal electrical intracerebral stimulation of a face-sensitive area causes transient prosopagnosia. Neuroscience, 222, 281-288. [PDF] [video 1] [video 2]

Laguesse, R., Dormal, G., Biervoye, A., Kuefner, D., Rossion, B. (2012). Extensive visual training in adulthood significantly reduces the face inversion effect. Journal of Vision, 12:14, 1-13. [PDF]

Quadflieg, S., Todorov, A., Laguesse, R., Rossion, B. (2012). Normal face-based judgments of social characteristics despite impaired holistic face processing. Visual Cognition, 20, 865-882. [PDF]

Ramon M., & Rossion, B. (2012). Hemisphere-dependent holistic processing of familiar facesBrain and Cognition, 78, 1-13. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Alonso-Prieto, E., Boremanse, A., Kuefner, D., Van Belle, G. (2012). A steady-state visual evoked potential approach to individual face perception: effect of inversion, contrast-reversal and temporal dynamics. NeuroImage, 63, 1585-1600. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Hanseeuw, B., Dricot, L. (2012). Defining face perception areas in the human brain: a large-scale factorial fMRI face localizer analysis. Brain and Cognition, 79, 138-157. [PDF]

 

2011

Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2011). Holistic processing impairment can be restricted to faces in acquired prosopagnosia: Evidence from the global/local Navon effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 5, 1-14. [PDF]

Caharel, S., Jacques, C., d'Arripe, O., Ramon, M., & Rossion, B. (2011). Early electrophysiological correlates of adaptation to personally familiar and unfamiliar faces across viewpoint changes. Brain Research, 1387: 85-98. [PDF]

Jiang, F., Blanz, V., Rossion, B. (2011). Holistic processing of shape cues in face identification: evidence from face inversion, composite faces and acquired prosopagnosia. Visual Cognition, 19, 1003-1034. [PDF]

Jiang, F., Dricot, L., Weber, J., Righi, G., Tarr, M.J., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2011). Face categorization in visual scenes may start in a higher order area of the right fusiform gyrus: evidence from dynamic visual stimulation in neuroimaging. Journal of Neurophysiology, 106, 2720-2736. [PDF] [stimuli as figures] [video]

Prieto, E.A., Caharel, S., Henson, R., Rossion, B. (2011). Early (N170/M170) face-sensitivity despite right lateral occipital brain damage in acquired prosopagnosia. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 5:138. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00138 [PDF]

Ramon, M., Caharel, S., & Rossion, B. (2011). The speed of personally familiar face recognition. Perception, 40, 437-449. [PDF]

Rossion, B. & Boremanse, A. (2011). Robust sensitivity to facial identity in the right human occipito-temporal cortex as revealed by steady-state visual-evoked potentials. Journal of Vision. 11(2):16, 1–21. [PDF]

Rossion, B. & Caharel, S. (2011). ERP evidence for the speed of face categorization in the human brain: disentangling the contribution of low-level visual cues from face perception. Vision Research, 51, 1297-1311 [PDF]

Rossion, B., Dricot, L., Goebel, R., Busigny, T. (2011). Holistic face categorization in higher-level cortical visual areas of the normal and prosopagnosic brain: towards a non-hierarchical view of face perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:225. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00225. [PDF]

Van Belle, G., Busigny, T., Lefèvre, P., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Gentile, F., Rossion, B. (2011). Impairment of holistic face percetion following right occipito-temporal damage in prosopagnosia: converging evidence from gaze-contingency. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3145-3150. [PDF][video: mask] [video: window]

 

2010

Busigny, T., Graf, M., Mayer, E., Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia as a face-specific disorder: Ruling out the general visual similarity account . Neuropsychologia, 48, 2051-2067. [PDF] [video: vegetables] [video: memory game]

Busigny, T., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Ceccaldi, M., Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 4057-4092. [PDF]

Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia abolishes the face inversion effect. Cortex, 46, 965-981. [PDF]

Busigny, T. & Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia is not due to a general impairment in fine-grained recognition of exemplars of a visually homogeneous category. Behavioural Neurology, 23, 229-231. [PDF]

de Heering, A., de Liedekerke, C., Deboni, M., Rossion, B. (2010). The role of experience during childhood in shaping the other-race face effect. Developmental Science, 13, 181-187. [PDF]

Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2010). Misaligning face halves increases and delays the N170 specifically for upright faces: implications for the nature of early face representations. Brain Research, 1318, 96-109. [PDF]

Kuefner, D., de Heering, A., Jacques, C., Palmero-Soler, E., Rossion, B. (2010). Early visually evoked electrophysiological responses over the human brain (P1, N170) show stable patterns of face-sensitivity from 4 years to adulthood. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 3:67. doi:10.3389/neuro.09.067.2009 [PDF]

Kuefner, D., Jacques, C., Prieto, E.A., Rossion, B. (2010). Electrophysiological correlates of the composite face illusion: disentangling perceptual and decisional components of holistic face processing in the human brain. Brain and Cognition, 74, 225-238. [PDF]

Michel, C., Corneille, O., Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic face encoding is modulated by perceived face race: evidence from perceptual adaptation. Visual Cognition, 18, 434-455. [PDF]

Ramon, M., Busigny, T., Rossion, B. (2010). Impaired holistic processing of unfamiliar individual faces in acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48, 933-944. [PDF]

Ramon, M., Dricot, L., Rossion, B. (2010). Personally familiar faces are perceived categorically in face-selective regions other than the FFA. European Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 1587-1598. [PDF]

Ramon, M., Rossion, B. (2010). Impaired processing of relative distances between features and of the eye region in acquired prosopagnosia—two sides of the same holistic coin? Cortex, 46, 374-389. [PDF]

Rossion, B. & Curran, T. (2010). Visual expertise with pictures of cars correlates with RT magnitude of the car inversion effect. Perception, 39, 173-183. [PDF]

Schiltz, C., Dricot, L., Goebel, R., & Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic perception of individual faces in the right middle fusiform gyrus as evidenced by the composite face illusion. Journal of Vision, 10(2):25, 1-16. [PDF]

Taschereau-Dumouchel, V., Rossion, B., Schyns, P.G., Gosselin, F.(2010). Interattribute distances do not represent the identity of real-world faces. Front. Psychology 1:159. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00159. [PDF]

Van Belle, G., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Busigny, T., Rossion, B. (2010). Whole not hole: expert face recognition requires holistic perception. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2609-2620. [PDF] [video: mask] [video: window]

Van Belle, G., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Rossion, B., Lefèvre, P. (2010). Face inversion impairs holistic perception: Evidence from gaze-contingent stimulation. Journal of Vision. May 1;10. pii: 10.5.10. doi: 10.1167/10.5.10. [PDF]

Van Belle, G., Lefèvre, P.,Laguesse, R., Busigny, T., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K. (2010). Feature-based processing of personally familiar faces in prosopagnosia: Evidence from eyegaze contingency. Behavioural Neurology, 23, 255-257. [PDF]

Van Belle, G.*, Ramon, M.*, Lefèvre, P., Rossion, B. (2010). Fixation patterns during recognition of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces. Frontiers in Cognitive Science. (* equal contribution). Frontiers in Psychology, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00020 [PDF]

 

2009

Busigny, T., Robaye, L., Dricot, L.., Rossion, B. (2009). Right anterior temporal lobe atrophy and person-based semantic defect: a detailed case study. Neurocase, 30, 1-24. [PDF]

Caharel, S., d'Arripe, O., Ramon, M., Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2009). Early adaptation to unfamiliar faces across viewpoint changes in the right hemisphere: evidence from the N170 ERP component. Neuropsychologia, 47, 639-643. [PDF]

Caharel, S., Jiang, F., Blanz, V., Rossion, B. (2009). Recognizing an individual face: 3D shape contributes earlier than 2D surface reflectance information. NeuroImage, 47, 1809-1818. [PDF]

Goffaux, V., Rossion, B., Sorger, B., Schiltz, C., Goebel, R. (2009). Face inversion disrupts the perception of vertical relations between features in the right human occipito-temporal cortex. Journal of Neuropsychology, 3, 45-67. [PDF]

Jacques, C., Rossion, B. (2009). The initial representation of individual faces in the right occipito-temporal cortex is holistic: electrophysiological evidence from the composite face illusion. Journal of Vision, 9(6):8, 1–16. [PDF]

Jiang, F., Dricot, L., Blanz, V., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2009). Neural correlates of shape and surface reflectance information in individual faces. Neuroscience, 163, 1078-1091. [PDF]

Rossion, B. (2009). Distinguishing the cause and consequence of face inversion: the perceptual field hypothesis. Acta Psychologica, 132, 300-312. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Kaiser, M.D., Bub, D., Tanaka, J.W. (2009). Is the loss of diagnosticity of the eye region a common aspect of acquired prosopagnosia?Journal of Neuropsychology, 3, 69-78. [PDF]

Steeves, J., Dricot, L., Goltz, H., Sorger, B., Peters, J., Milner, D., Goodale, M.-A., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2009). Abnormal face identity coding in the middle fusiform gyrus of two brain-damaged prosopagnosic patients. Neuropsychologia, 47, 2584-2592. [PDF]

 

2008

de Heering, A. & Rossion, B. (2008). Prolonged visual experience in adulthood modulates holistic face perception. PLOS One, 3(5):e2317. [PDF]

de Heering, A., Rossion, B., Turati, C., Simion, F., (2008). Holistic face processing can be independent of gaze behavior: Evidence from the face composite effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 183-195. [PDF]

de Heering, A., Turati, C., Rossion, B., Bulf, H., Goffaux, V., & Simion, F. (2008). Newborns' face recognition is based on spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles per degree. Cognition, 106, 444-454. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Dricot, L., Sorger, B., Schiltz, C., Goebel, R., Rossion, B. (2008). The roles of “face” and “non-face” areas during individual face perception: evidence by fMRI adaptation in a brain-damaged prosopagnosic patient. NeuroImage, 40, 318-332. [PDF]

Maurer, U., Rossion, B., McCandliss, B. (2008). Category specificity in early perception: face and word N170 responses differ in both lateralization and habituation properties. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2:18. [PDF]

Orban de Xivry, J.-J., Ramon, M., Lefèvre, P., Rossion, B. (2008). Reduced fixation on the upper area of personally familiar faces following acquired prosopagnosia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 245-268. [PDF]

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2008). Picture-plane inversion leads to qualitative changes of face perception. Acta Psychologica, 128, 274-289. [PDF]

REVIEW Rossion, B. (2008). Constraining the cortical face network by neuroimaging studies of acquired prosopagnosia. NeuroImage, 40, 423-426. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Boremanse, A. (2008). Nonlinear relationship between holistic processing of individual faces and picture-plane rotation: evidence from the face composite illusion. Journal of Vision, 8(4):3, 1-13, https://journalofvision.org/8/4/3, doi:10.1167/8.4.3. [PDF]

REVIEW Rossion, B. & Jacques, C. (2008). Does physical interstimulus variance account for early electrophysiological face sensitive responses in the human brain? Ten lessons on the N170. NeuroImage, 39, 1959-1979. [PDF]

 

2007

Bentin, S., Taylor, M.J. Rousselet, G.A., Itier, R.J., Caldara, R., Schyns, P.G., Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Much ado about nothing: controlling interstimulus perceptual variance does not abolish N170 face sensitivity, Nature Neuroscience, 10, 801-802. [PDF] [+ supplementary figures 1 2 3 4]

de Heering , A. & Houthuys, S. & Rossion, B. (2007). Holistic face processing is mature at 4 years of age: evidence from the composite face effect. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 96, 57-70. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Goffaux, V. & Rossion, B. (2007). Face inversion disproportionately impairs the perception of vertical but not horizontal relations between features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33, 995-1002. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Jacques, C. d'Arripe, O., Rossion, B. (2007). The time course of the inversion effect during individual face discrimination. Journal of Vision, 7(8):3, 1-9, https://journalofvision.org/7/8/3/, doi:10.1167/7.8.3. [PDF]

Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Electrophysiological evidence for temporal dissociation between spatial attention and sensory competition during human face processing. Cerebral Cortex, 17, 1055-1065. [PDF]

Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2007). Early electrophysiological responses to multiple face orientations correlate with individual discrimination performance in humans. NeuroImage, 36, 863-876. [PDF]

Michel, C., Corneille, O., Rossion, B. (2007). Race categorization modulates holistic encoding. Cognitive Science, 31, 911-924. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Collins, D., Goffaux, V., Curran, T. (2007). Long-term expertise with artificial objects increases visual competition with early face categorization processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 543 - 555. [PDF] [slideshow summary] [draft in color]

Sorger, B., Goebel, R., Schiltz, C., Rossion, B. (2007). Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of prosopagnosia . NeuroImage, 35, 836 - 852. [PDF]

 

2006

Caldara, R., Seghier, M.L., Rossion, B., Lazeyras, F., Michel, C., Hauert, C.A. (2006). The fusiform face area is tuned for curvilinear patterns with more high-contrasted elements in the upper part. NeuroImage, 31, 313-319. [PDF]

Goffaux, V. & Rossion, B. (2006). Faces are “spatial”- holistic face perception is supported by low spatial frequencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 1023-1039. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). The speed of individual face categorization. Psychological Science,17, 485-492. [PDF]

Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). The time course of visual competition to the presentation of centrally fixated faces. Journal of Vision, 6, 154-162. [PDF]

Joyce, C.A., Schyns, P.G., Gosselin, F., Cottrell, G.W., Rossion, B. (2006). Early selection of diagnostic facial information in the human visual cortex. Vision Research, 46, 800-813. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Mazard, A., Schiltz, C ., Rossion, B. (2006). Recovery from adaptation to facial identity is larger for upright than inverted faces in the human occipito-temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 44, 912-922. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Michel, C., Caldara, R., Rossion, B. (2006). Same-race faces are perceived more holistically than other-race faces. Visual Cognition, 14, 55-73. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Michel, C., Rossion, B., Han, J., Chung, C-S., Caldara, R. (2006). Holistic processing is finely tuned for faces of our own race. Psychological Science, 17, 608-615. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Schiltz, C. & Rossion, B. (2006). Faces are represented holistically in the human occipito-temporal cortex. NeuroImage, 32, 1385-1394. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Schiltz C, Sorger B, Caldara R, Ahmed F, Mayer E, Goebel R, Rossion B. (2006). Impaired face discrimination in acquired prosopagnosia is associated with abnormal response to individual faces in the right middle fusiform gyrus. Cerebral Cortex, 16, 574-586. [PDF] [slideshow summary]
 

2005

 

Caldara, R., Schyns, P., Mayer, M., Smith, M., Gosselin, F., Rossion, B. (2005). Does prosopagnosia take the eyes out from faces? Evidence for a defect in the use of diagnostic facial information in a brain-damaged patient. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1652-1666. [PDF]

Goffaux V., Hault, B., Michel, C., Vuong, Q. C., Rossion, B. (2005). The respective role of low and high spatial frequencies in supporting configural and featural processing of faces. Perception, 34, 77-86. [PDF]

Goffaux, V., Jacques, C., Mouraux, A., Oliva, A., Schyns, P. G., Rossion, B. (2005). Diagnostic Colors Contribute to the Early Stages of Scenes Categorization: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Evidence. Visual Cognition, 12, 878-892. [PDF]

Joyce, C. A. & Rossion, B. (2005). The face-sensitive N170 and VPP components manifest the same brain processes: The effect of reference electrode site. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2613-2631. [PDF]

Schuller, A. M. & Rossion, B. (2005). Spatial attention triggered by eye gaze enhances and speeds up visual processing in upper and lower visual fields beyond early striate visual processing. Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 2565-2576. [PDF]

 

2004

Caldara, R., Rossion, B., Bovet, P., Hauert, C. A. (2004). Event-related potentials and the time course of the "other-race" face classification advantage. Neuroreport, 15, 905-910. [PDF]

Delvenne, J.-F., Seron, X., Coyette, F., Rossion, B. (2004). Evidence for perceptual deficits in associative visual (prosop)agnosia: a single-case study. Neuropsychologia, 42, 597-612. [PDF]

Goffaux, V., Mouraux, A., Desmet, S., Rossion, B. (2004). Human non-phase-locked gamma oscillations in experience-based perception of visual scenes. Neuroscience Letters, 354, 14-17. [PDF]

Horovitz, S.G., Rossion, B., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C. (2004). Parametric design and correlational analyses help integrating fMRI and electrophysiological data during face processing. NeuroImage, 22, 1587-1595. [PDF]

Jacques, C. & Rossion, B. (2004). Concurrent processing reveals competition between visual representations of faces. Neuroreport, 15, 2417-2421. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Rossion, B., Kung, C.-C., Tarr, M.J. (2004). Visual expertise with nonface objects leads to competition with the early perceptual processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex. PNAS, 101, 14521-14526. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Rossion, B. & Pourtois, G. (2004). Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart’s object databank : the role of surface detail in basic level object recognition. Perception, 33, 217-236. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Schuller, A.-M. & Rossion, B. (2004). Perception of static eye gaze direction facilitates subsequent early visual processing. Clinical Neurophysiology, 115, 1161-1168. [PDF]
 

2003

Goffaux, V., Gauthier, I., Rossion, B. (2003). Spatial scale contribution to early visual differences between face and object processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16, 416-424. [PDF]

Goffaux, V., Jemel, B., Jacques, C., Rossion, B., Schyns, P.G. (2003). ERP evidence for task modulations on face perceptual processing at different spatial scales. Cognitive Science, 27, 313-325. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Caldara, R., Seghier, M., Schuller, A.-M., Lazeyras, F., Mayer, E. (2003). A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. Brain Journal of Neurology, 126, 2381-2395. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Rossion, B., Joyce, C.J., Cottrell, G.W., Tarr, M.J. (2003). Early lateralization and orientation tuning for face, word and object processing in the visual cortex. NeuroImage, 20, 1609-1624. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Schiltz, C., Crommelinck, M. (2003). The functionally defined ‘face areas’ are sensitive to long-term visual familiarity. NeuroImage, 19, 877-883.  [PDF]

 

2002

Rossion, B. (2002). Is sex categorisation from faces really parallel to face recognition ? Visual Cognition, 9, 1003-1020. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Curran, T., Gauthier, I. (2002). A defense of the subordinate-level expertise account for the N170 component. Cognition, 85, 189-196. [PDF]

Rossion, B. & Gauthier, I. (2002). How does the brain process upright and inverted faces? Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1, 63-75. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Goffaux, V., Tarr, M.-J., Crommelinck, M. (2002). Expertise training with novel objects leads to face-like electrophysiological responses. Psychological Science, 13, 250-257. [PDF]

 

 

2001

Rossion, B., Schiltz, C., Robaye, R., Pirenne, D., Crommelinck, M. (2001). How does the brain discriminate familiar and unfamiliar faces: a PET study of face categorical perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 1019-1034. [PDF]

Schuller, A. M. & Rossion, B. (2001). Spatial attention triggered by eye gaze increases and speeds up early visual activity. Neuroreport, 12, 2381-2386. [PDF]
 

2000

 

Campanella, C., Hanoteau, C., Depy, D., Rossion, B., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M, Guérit, J.-M. (2000). Right N170 modulation in a face discrimination task: how to account for categorical perception of familiar faces, Psychophysiology, 37, 796-806. [PDF]

Rossion, B., de Gelder, B., Dricot, L., Zoontjes, R., De Volder, A., Bodart, J.-M., Crommelinck, M. (2000). Hemispheric asymmetries for whole-based and part-based face processing in the human fusiform gyrus, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 793-802. [PDF] [slideshow summary]

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I.,Tarr, M.J., Despland, P.-A., Linotte, S., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. (2000). The N170 occipito-temporal component is enhanced and delayed to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain, Neuroreport, 11, 1-6. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Pourtois, G., de Gelder, B., Guérit, J.-M., Weiskrantz, L. (2000). Early extrastriate activity without V1 in humans, Neuroscience Letters, 279, 1-4. [PDF]

 

1999

 

Dubois, S., Rossion, B., Schiltz, C., Bodart, J.M., Michel, C., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M. (1999). Effect of familiarity on the processing of human faces. Neuroimage, 9, 278-289. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Campanella, S., Gomez, C., Delinte, A., Debatisse, D., Liard, L., Dubois, S., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M., Guérit, J.-M. (1999). Task Modulation of Brain Activity Related to Familiar and Unfamiliar Face Processing: an ERP Study, Clinical Neurophysiology, 110, 449-462. [PDF]

Rossion, B., Delvenne, J.-F., Debatisse, D., Goffaux, V., Bruyer, R., Crommelinck, M., Guérit, J.-M. (1999). Spatio-temporal brain localization of the face inversion effect, Biological Psychology, 50, 173-189. [PDF]

 

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Retter, T. L. & Rossion, B. (In Press). Visual adaptation reveals an objective electrophysiological measure of high-level individual face discrimination. Scientific Reports.