Modulation of Neural Oscillatory Activity during Dynamic Face Processing

Abstract

Various neuroimaging and neurophysiological methods have been used to examine neural activation patterns in response to faces. However, much of previous research has relied on static images of faces, which do not allow a complete description of the temporal structure of face-specific neural activities to be made. More recently, insights are emerging from fMRI studies about the neural substrates that underpin our perception of naturalistic dynamic face stimuli, but the temporal and spectral oscillatory activity associated with processing dynamic faces has yet to be fully characterized. Here, we used MEG and beamformer source localization to examine the spatiotemporal profile of neurophysiological oscillatory activity in response to dynamic faces. Source analysis revealed a number of regions showing enhanced activation in response to dynamic relative to static faces in the distributed face network, which were spatially coincident with regions that were previously identified with fMRI. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that perception of realistic dynamic facial stimuli activates a distributed neural network at varying time points facilitated by modulations in low-frequency power within alpha and beta frequency ranges (8-30 Hz). Naturalistic dynamic face stimuli may provide a better means of representing the complex nature of perceiving facial expressions in the real world, and neural oscillatory activity can provide additional insights into the associated neural processes.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01209
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience
College of Health & Life Sciences
Additional Information: © 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publication ISSN: 1530-8898
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 08:20
Date Deposited: 05 Feb 2018 14:30
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-03-01
Published Online Date: 2018-01-31
Accepted Date: 2018-01-31
Authors: Foley, Elaine (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-4459-9855)
Rippon, Gina
Senior, Carl (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-2155-4139)

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