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Neuronal mechanisms underlying temporal processing stages of facial images in the temporal cortex

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K00220
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

Sugase-Miyamoto Yasuko  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 主任研究員 (40357257)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywords顔画像 / 知覚 / 側頭葉 / TE野 / 単一ニューロン活動 / 顔知覚
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Face-responsive neurons in the temporal cortex of monkeys represented information about a global category of stimuli, namely, human vs. monkey vs. shapes earlier than information about more detailed categories associated with facial expression and identity. We investigated the correlation between receptive-field characteristics of face-responsive neurons and the temporal processing stages. The receptive fields of face-responsive neurons can be classified into three groups: central visual field type, wide field type and others. The neurons of the central visual field type represented information about both the global category of the stimuli (monkey faces vs human faces vs shapes) and the more detailed facial category items (individuals and expressions). The neurons of the wide field type represented information about the global category. These results suggest that the information about the facial identity and expression is relatively slowly processed by the central visual field type.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

顔を識別する能力は、我々の社会生活を支える脳の重要な機能である。この能力は、入力された視覚情報から、髪、眉、眼、鼻、口などの要素を取り出し、その組み合わせとして顔を知覚するプロセスに基づいている。本研究では、これまでの研究成果に基づいて、顔画像の時間的情報コーディングとニューロンの性質(受容野)との関係を調べた。時間的情報コーディングは、下側頭皮質に加えて、第一次視覚野、後部側頭皮質、および嗅周囲皮質においても報告があるため、本研究成果は、腹側視覚経路における情報処理を理解するために重要であると考えられる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 2 results) Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results,  Invited: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] A Widely Applicable Real-Time Mono/Binocular Eye Tracking System Using a High Frame-Rate Digital Camera2017

    • Author(s)
      Matsuda Keiji、Nagami Takeshi、Sugase Yasuko、Takemura Aya、Kawano Kenji
    • Journal Title

      Human-Computer Interaction. User Interface Design, Development and Multimodality. HCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science

      Volume: 10271 Pages: 593-608

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-3-319-58071-5_45

    • ISBN
      9783319580708, 9783319580715
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Information accumulation over time in monkey inferior temporal cortex neurons explains pattern recognition reaction time under visual noise2017

    • Author(s)
      Kuboki R, Sugase-Miyamoto Y, Matsumoto N, Richmond BJ, Shidara M
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

      Volume: 10 Pages: 43-43

    • DOI

      10.3389/fnint.2016.00043

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 総説 逆さま顔の認知からみた脳の働き2015

    • Author(s)
      菅生-宮本 康子、松本 有央、河野 憲二
    • Journal Title

      BRAIN and NERVE

      Volume: 67 Issue: 10 Pages: 1231-1239

    • DOI

      10.11477/mf.1416200288

    • ISSN
      1344-8129, 1881-6096
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-01
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Receptive-field characteristics of neurons which temporally code global/fine information of faces in area TE2018

    • Author(s)
      Hayashi K, Matsumoto N, Matsuda K, Kawano K, Sugase-Miyamoto Y.
    • Organizer
      Neuroscience 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Neuronal mechanisms underlying the face inversion effect in macaque area TE2017

    • Author(s)
      Sugase-Miyamoto Y
    • Organizer
      NICT-NSF Collaborative Workshop on Computational Neuroscience
    • Place of Presentation
      脳情報通信融合センター、吹田市
    • Year and Date
      2017-01-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Upright and inverted faces are separately represented in feed-forward processing in the visual cortex2017

    • Author(s)
      Sugase-Miyamoto Y, Matsumoto N, Mototake Y, Kawano K, Okada M
    • Organizer
      Neuroscience 2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Separate representation of upright and inverted faces by feed-forward processing in the visual cortex revealed by Deep Neural Network2017

    • Author(s)
      松本 有央、本武陽一、河野憲二、岡田真人、菅生-宮本 康子
    • Organizer
      日本神経回路学会第27回全国大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Multiplex representation of information in face responsive neurons of monkey area TE2016

    • Author(s)
      Ichikawa H, Igarashi Y, Masutani Y, Kawano K, Okada M, Sugase-Miamoto Y
    • Organizer
      Neuroscience 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      San Diego, CA, USA
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-15
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The effect of visual noise on the behavioral reaction time during pattern recognition is explained by the information encoded in the Macaque inferior temporal neuronal responses2016

    • Author(s)
      久保木 亮介、菅生-宮本 康子、松本 有央、Barry J Richmond、設楽 宗孝
    • Organizer
      第39回日本神経科学大会
    • Place of Presentation
      パシフィコ横浜、横浜市
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-22
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The effect of face inversion on the neuronal population activity in the monkey area TE2016

    • Author(s)
      菅生-宮本 康子、松本 有央、赤穗 昭太郎、河野憲二
    • Organizer
      第39回日本神経科学大会
    • Place of Presentation
      パシフィコ横浜、横浜市
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-20
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Face inversion decreased information about facial identity and expression in macaque area TE2015

    • Author(s)
      Sugase-Miyamoto Y, Matsumoto N, Kawano K
    • Organizer
      International symposium on Object Vision in human, monkey, and machine
    • Place of Presentation
      電気通信大学(東京都)
    • Year and Date
      2015-11-05
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Information representation in monkey area TE for global categorization of faces and for upright versus inverted face categorization2015

    • Author(s)
      Matsumoto N, Sugase-Miyamoto Y, Kawano K, Okada M
    • Organizer
      Neuroscience 2015
    • Place of Presentation
      Chicago, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-10-18
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 逆さま顔の効果から探る側頭葉の顔の情報処理2015

    • Author(s)
      菅生(宮本)康子、松本有央、河野憲二
    • Organizer
      第19回視覚科学フォーラム企画シンポジウム
    • Place of Presentation
      福島市
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-20
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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