In this review, we synthesize the existing literature investigating personally familiar face
processing and highlight the remarkable, enhanced processing efficiency resulting from real …

Highlights•Social network structure and position characteristics affect behavior and
cognition.•Little is known about how the brain encodes patterns of third-party …

Personally familiar faces are processed more robustly and efficiently than unfamiliar faces.
The human face processing system comprises a core system that analyzes the visual …

The visual system is tuned for rapid detection of faces, with the fastest choice saccade to a
face at 100ms. Familiar faces have a more robust representation than do unfamiliar faces …

Discrimination of facial identities is a fundamental function of the human brain that is
challenging to examine with macroscopic measurements of neural activity, such as those …

We explored the neural signatures of face familiarity using cross-participant and cross-
experiment decoding of event-related potentials, evoked by unknown and experimentally …

Recognition of personally familiar faces is remarkably efficient, effortless and robust. We
asked if feature-based face processing facilitates detection of familiar faces by testing the …

Acquired prosopagnosia is primarily defined as a defect in recognizing familiar faces.
Nonetheless, for practical and methodological reasons, studies of such rare patients …

Animals are part of humans' social environment and present numerous benefits. Each
partner in a human-animal interaction uses signals emitted by the other (eg postures …

Eye gaze is a powerful cue that indicates where another person's attention is directed in the
environment. Seeing another person's eye gaze shift spontaneously and reflexively elicits a …