Thinking the voice: neural correlates of voice perception

P Belin, S Fecteau, C Bedard - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2004 - cell.com
The human voice is the carrier of speech, but also an'auditory face'that conveys important
affective and identity information. Little is known about the neural bases of our abilities to …

Neuroanatomical substrates of social cognition dysfunction in autism

K Pelphrey, R Adolphs, JP Morris - Mental retardation and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In this review article, we summarize recent progress toward understanding the neural
structures and circuitry underlying dysfunctional social cognition in autism. We review …

Event‐related brain potentials reveal anomalies in temporal processing of faces in autism spectrum disorder

J McPartland, G Dawson, SJ Webb… - Journal of child …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Individuals with autism exhibit impairments in face recognition, and
neuroimaging studies have shown that individuals with autism exhibit abnormal patterns of …

Young children with autism show atypical brain responses to fearful versus neutral facial expressions of emotion

G Dawson, SJ Webb, L Carver… - Developmental …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence suggests that autism is associated with impaired emotion perception, but it is
unknown how early such impairments are evident. Furthermore, most studies that have …

Look into my eyes: Gaze direction and person memory

M Mason, B Hood, CN Macrae - Memory, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The current research considered the effects of gaze direction on a fundamental aspect of
social cogition: person memory. It was anticipated that a person's direction of gaze (ie, direct …

Orienting attention via observed gaze shift evokes longer term inhibitory effects: implications for social interactions, attention, and memory.

A Frischen, SP Tipper - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
One component of successful social interactions is joint attention. It is now well established
that when a gaze shift is observed, the observer's attention rapidly and automatically orients …

An evolutionary theory of schizophrenia: Cortical connectivity, metarepresentation, and the social brain

JK Burns - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2004 - cambridge.org
Schizophrenia is a worldwide, prevalent disorder with a multifactorial but highly genetic
aetiology. A constant prevalence rate in the face of reduced fecundity has caused some to …

Attention orienting by another's gaze direction in children with autism

A Kylliäinen, JK Hietanen - Journal of Child Psychology and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate attention orienting triggered by
another's gaze direction in autism. Method: Twelve high‐functioning children with autism …

Visual expertise with nonface objects leads to competition with the early perceptual processing of faces in the human occipitotemporal cortex

B Rossion, CC Kung, MJ Tarr - Proceedings of the National …, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Human electrophysiological studies have found that the processing of faces and other
objects differs reliably at≈ 150 ms after stimulus onset, faces giving rise to a larger …

Bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) comprehend the referent of both static and dynamic human gazing and pointing in an object-choice task.

AA Pack, LM Herman - Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors tested 2 bottlenosed dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) for their understanding of
human-directed gazing or pointing in a 2-alternative object-choice task. A dolphin watched a …