43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

ProgramOct 31 (Wed)
8:20-8:30
Opening Remark
Ryusuke Kakigi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
8:30-9:30
Keynote Lecture 1
Chair: Tetsuya Iidaka (Nagoya University)
James Haxby (Dartmouth College, USA)
“A common, high-dimensional model of the representational space for faces andobjects in ventral temporal cortex”
9:30-9:45 -----------Coffee Break----------Session 1
Chair: Tetsuya Iidaka (Nagoya University)
James Haxby (Dartmouth College, USA)
9:45-10:30
Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford University, USA)“The neural bases of face recognition in humans”
10:30-11:15
Maria Ida Gobbini (Dartmouth College, USA)“Distributed neural system for face recognition”
11:15-11:45
Tetsuya Iidaka (Nagoya University)“Distinct neural correlates of empathy for happy and sad emotions: 3T fMRI study”
11:45-13:15 -----------Lunch-----------

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43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

ProgramOct 31 (Wed)Session 2
Chair: Ryusuke Kakigi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)
Bruno Rossion (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
13:15-14:00
Bruno Rossion (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)“Understanding face perception by means of fast periodic visual stimulation”
14:00-14:45
Margot J. Taylor (University of Toronto, Canada)“Development of face processing: Recognizing faces and their emotions”
14:45-15:15
Shozo Tobimatsu (Kyushu University)“Electrophysiological approach to human face perception: importance of stimulus
manipulation”
15:15-15:30 -----------Coffee Break----------15:30-16:15
Ana Susac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)“Neurodynamics of very early face processing”
16:15-17:00
Andreas Ioannides (AAI Scientific Cultural Services Ltd, Cyprus)“Why face processing in the human brain is fast: clues from categorization andemotion analysis”
17:00-17:30
Ryusuke Kakigi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)“Face inversion effect: MEG/EEG study”
18:00-20:00
Welcome Reception (Okazaki Conference Center)2

43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

Program
Nov 1 (Thu)
8:30-9:30
Keynote Lecture 2
Chair: Satoshi Eifuku (University of Toyama)
Doris Y. Tsao (California Institute of Technology, USA)“The neural machinery for processing faces”
9:30-9:45 -----------Coffee Break----------Session 3
Chair: Satoshi Eifuku (University of Toyama)
Doris Y. Tsao (California Institute of Technology, USA)
9:45-10:15
Manabu Tanifuji (RIKEN, Brain Science Institute)“Neural mechanisms to represent information about face category and visual features
simultaneously in inferotemporal cortex”
10:15-11:00
Winrich A. Freiwald (The Rockefeller University, USA)“On the neural basis of face recognition”
11:00-11:30
Yoichi Sugita (Waseda University)“Face perception in monkeys before and after seeing flesh faces”
11:30-12:00
Satoshi Eifuku (University of Toyama)“Neural representations of perceptual and semantic identities of individuals in theventral anterior inferior temporal cortex of monkeys”
12:00-17:00
Excursion to Asuke area (with lunch)
17:00-19:00
Poster Session Core Time (with light meals and beverages)

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43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

ProgramNov 2 (Fri)
8:30-9:30
Keynote Lecture 3
Chair: Masumi Inagaki (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
K. Suzanne Scherf (Pennsylvania State University, USA)“Atypical development of face perception in autism”
9:30-9:45 -----------Coffee Break----------Session 4
Chair: Masumi Inagaki (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
K. Suzanne Scherf (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
9:45-10:30
Joseph P. McCleery (University of Birmingham, UK)“Human face and body action processing in infants at risk for autism”
10:30-11:00
Miho Nakamura (The Institute for Developmental Research)“Face perception in patients with Williams syndrome: Neuropsychological andneurophysiological findings”
11:00-11:45
Daniel Messinger (University of Miami, USA)“The development of face perception in the context of infant emotional expressions: A
computer vision perspective”
11:45-12:15
Masumi Inagaki (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)“Neurophysiological alteration of face recognition in ASD children”
12:15-13:30 -----------Lunch-----------

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43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

ProgramNov 2 (Fri)
Session 5
Chair: Shigeru Akamatsu (Hosei University)
Helmut Leder (University of Vienna, Austria)
13:30-14:15
Timothy Bickmore (Northeastern University, USA)
“Relational agents for patient education and counseling”
14:15-15:00
Yiannis Demiris (Imperial College London, UK)“Bioinspired generative computational models of action perception”
15:00-15:30
Motoaki Sugiura (Tohoku University)“Self-face recognition as revealed by fMRI”
15:30-15:45 -----------Coffee Break----------15:45-16:30
Helmut Leder (University of Vienna, Austria)“Appreciation and perception of faces”
16:30-17:15
Alexander Todorov (Princeton University, USA)“Social perception of faces”
17:15-17:45
Takashi Tsukiura (Kyoto University)“Remembering faces: The impact of face-based social signals on memory for faces”
18:30-21:00
Banquet (Okazaki Conference Center)5

43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

ProgramNov 3 (Sat)8:30-9:30
Keynote Lecture 4
Chair: Masami K. Yamaguchi (Chuo University)
Gillian Rhodes (The University of Western Australia, Australia)“Adaptive processes in normal and disordered face perception”
9:30-9:45 -----------Coffee Break----------Session 6
Chair: Masami K. Yamaguchi (Chuo University)
Gillian Rhodes (The University of Western Australia, Australia)
9:45-10:30
Harold Hill (University of Wollongong, Australia)“Exploring face space: Linking perceived and measured face shape”
10:30-11:15
Alice J. O'Toole (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
“Understanding the neural representation of facial identity, race and viewpoint:
Constraining the neural with the perceptual”
11:15-11:45
Masami K. Yamaguchi (Chuo University)“Infant's face perception: NIRS studies”
11:45-13:15 -----------Lunch----------13:15-14:00
Ken Nakayama (Harvard University, USA)
“What is developmental prosopagnosia?”
14:00-14:45
Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA)
“Preferences of faces and other objects - behavioral and neural correlates”
14:45-15:45
Closing Lecture
Chair: Masami K. Yamaguchi (Chuo University)
Olivier Pascalis (Université Pierre Mendès France, France)“The role of experience on the development of face processing during the first year oflife”
15:45-16:00
Concluding Remark
Ryusuke Kakigi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences)6

43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P1

Initial and life-long development in face perception ~comparative approaches onto faceperception~
Ikuma Adachi, Christoph Dahl

P2

Automatic face image generation system for transforming three dimensions of higher-orderimpression and its applications
Shigeru Akamatsu, Hanae Ishi, Yoshinori Inaba

P3

Broadly tuned face and hand representations in human high-level visual cortex.
Nicolas Davidenko, Kevin S. Weiner, Kalanit Grill-Spector

P4

Fine-grained face discrimination as evidenced by fast periodic visual stimulation
Adélaïde de Heering, Joan Liu-Shuang, Anthony M. Norcia, Bruno Rossion

P5

Basis of the individual differences in configural face processing.
Hirokazu Doi, Kazuyuki Shinohara

P6

Atypical updating of face representations with experience in children with autism
Louise Ewing

P7

Facial identity recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders revealed by P300
analysisAtsuko Gunji, Takaaki Goto, Yosuke Kita, Ryusuke Sakuma, Naomi Kokubo,
Toshihide Koike, Kotoe Sakihara, Makiko Kaga, Masumi Inagaki

P8

Verbalizing featural information before recognition task causes processing shift of facerecognition
Aya Hatano, Shinji Kitagami, Jun Kawaguchi

P9

It is in the eye but not that earlyAnne Hillairet de Boisferon

P10

Atypical gaze behavior towards face images in individuals with Williams Syndrome: An
eye-tracking study
Masahiro Hirai, Miho Nakamura, Yukako Muramatsu, Naoko Hayashi,
Hirokazu Kurahashi, Seiji Mizuno

P11

Infants’ brain activity for the faces with contrast-negated eyes
Hiroko Ichikawa, Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi, Ryusuke Kakigi

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Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P12

Quantification of the correspondence between the changes in facial expressions and thedegree of emotions
Masaki Ishii, Toshio Shimodate, Yoichi Kageyama, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Makoto Nishida

P13

Developmental change of sensitivity to threatening faces in children with autism spectrum
disorders
Tomoko Isomura, Nobuo Masataka

P14

Children’s face identity representations are no more view-specific than those of adults
Linda Jeffery, Cameron Rathbone, Ainsley Read, Gillian Rhodes

P15

Intra-cerebral electrical stimulation of a face-sensitive cortical area causes transient specific
impairment in face recognition
Jacques Jonas, Médéric Descoins, Laurent Koessler, Sophie Colnat-Coulbois,
Bruno Rossion, Louis Maillard

P16

Attractive faces enhance cognitive performance
Shogo Kajimura, Toshiyuki Himichi, Michio Nomura

P17

Imaging and decoding of semantic responses related to visual stimuli by electrocorticogram
Kyousuke Kamada, Naoto Kunii, Kensuke Kawai, Nobuhito Saito

P18

The syllable congruency of audio-visual speech stimuli and the response timing in theventriloquism with bilateral visual presentations.
Shoko Kanaya, Kazuhiko Yokosawa

P19

Quantitative analysis of features and impressions among faces belonging to different
categories
Masahide Kaneko

P20

The role of local and global configuration for the visual word form processing in theoccipitotemporal cortex
Chien-Hui Kao, Chien-Chung Chen

P21

Attentional control and metacognition in temporal visual search tasks with distracting face
imagesJun Kawahara, Shiori Sato8

43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P22

A randomized controlled trial of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for emotion regulationin adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders
Yuki Kawakubo, Miho Kuroda, Yukiko Kano

P23

Inferring mental state from eye gaze in Parkinson’s disease
Mitsuru Kawamura, Natsuko Tsuruya, Mutsutaka Kobayakawa

P24

Early visual experience and the recognition of facial expressions: Involvement of the
middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri in haptic identification by the early blind
Ryo Kitada, Yuko Okamoto, Akihiro T. Sasaki, Takanori Kochiyama,Motohide Miyahara, Susan J. Lederman, Norihiro Sadato

P25

Sparse modeling for face identification in monkey anterior temporal cortical areas
Jun Kitazono, Kenji Nagata, Satoshi Eifuku, Ryoi Tamura,Masato Okada

P26

Selective attention to attractive faces
Nadine Kloth, Lindsey Short, Gillian Rhodes

P27

Development of facial representation in infancy: NIRS-adaptation study
Megumi Kobayashi, Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi,
Ryusuke Kakigi

P28

Facial attractiveness in macaque monkeys
Hiroki Koda, Nobuyuki Kawai

P29

Facial identity influences facial expression recognition: A high-density ERP study
Sahoko Komatsu, Katsuya Ogata, Shizuka Horie, Yuji Hakoda, Shozo Tobimatsu

P30

Visualization of age-dependent and age-independent features of child’s face
Masashi Komori, Hiroshi Nittono

P31

Mere Exposure Effect towards Face Stimuli Reflected in Gamma Oscillation: EEG study
Nutchakan Kongthong, Tetsuto Minami, Shigeki Nakauchi

P32

Understanding individual face perception by means of fast periodic visual stimulation
Joan Liu-Shuang, Anthony M. Norcia, Bruno Rossion

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43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P33

Spontaneous Facial Emotion Discrimination in Individuals with Fragile X Syndrome andAutism Spectrum Disorders
Hayley Mace, Jo Moss, Chris Oliver, Giles Anderson, Joseph McCleery

P34

Applying a comprehensive Face - Expression Expert Program (FEEP) for children with
autism spectrum disorders
Soichiro Matsuda, Junichi Yamamoto

P35

Infants prefer the faces of strangers or mothers to morphed faces: an uncanny valley
between social novelty and familiarity
Yoshi-Taka Matsuda, Yoko Okamoto, Misako Ida, Kazuo Okanoya,
Masako Myowa-Yakakoshi

P36

Visual face aftereffects from haptic exploration of a face
Kazumichi Matsumiya

P37

Local field potentials for global categorization in monkey inferior temporal cortex
Narihisa Matsumoto, Yasuko Sugase-Miyamoto, Kenji Kawano

P38

The development of the perception of facial emotional change examined using ERPs
Kensaku Miki, Ryusuke Kakigi

P39

Facial color and inversion effect: an EEG study
Tetsuto Minami, Linda Changvisommid, Kae Nakajima, and Shigeki Nakauchi

P40

Face and voice processing in marmoset temporal neural circuit
Naohisa Miyakawa, Taku Banno, Wataru Suzuki, Noritaka Ichinohe

P41

The roles of anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex in emotional processing associatedwith self-evaluation of the face
Tomoyo Morita, Hiroki C. Tanabe, Akihiro T. Sasaki, Koji Shimada, Ryusuke Kakigi,
Norihiro Sadato

P42

Effect of face color on face-selective regions
Kae Nakajima, Testuto Minami, Shigeki Nakauchi

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Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P43

Comparing eye movements during impression judgment of faces in different personality
traits: analysis of fixation locations and durations
Natsuko Nakamura, Ayumi Maruyama, Hanae Ishi, Shigeru Akamatsu

P44

Blink-related momentary activation of the default mode network
while viewing videos
Tamami Nakano, Makoto Kato, Yusuke Morito, Seishi Itoi, Shigeru Kitazawa

P45

Eye Gaze and Human-agent Communication
Yukiko Nakano

P46

What facial information is important for rapid detection of the face? : Comparative
cognitive studies between humans and monkeys
Ryuzaburo Nakata, Ryoi Tamura, Satoshi Eifuku

P47

Face processing in infants by near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)Emi Nakato

P48

Effects of threat-relevant and threat-irrelevant negative expressions
on social attention orienting to eye gaze
Yuka Nishiyama, Jun Kawaguchi

P49

The role of contrast polarity of eyes on face recognition by 7-to-8month-olds
Yumiko Otsuka, Isamu Motoyoshi, Harold Hill, Megumi Kobayashi,
So Kanazawa, Masami K Yamaguchi

P50

Computational approach to estimate visual features represented by face selective cells in
macaque anterior inferior temporal cortex
Takashi Owaki, Michel Vidal-Naquet, Takayuki Sato, Go Uchida, Hideyuki Cateau,
Simon Ullman, Manabu Tanifuji

P51

Infants’ face perception under different lighting conditions
Yuiko Sakuta, Masami K. Yamaguchi, So Kanazawa

P52

PrimFace: Face database of non-human primates
Takayuki Sato, Ryuzaburo Nakata, Taku Banno, and Narihisa Matsumoto

P53

Face inversion decreased information about facial identity and expression in faceresponsive neurons of macaque inferior temporal cortex
Y. Sugase-Miyamoto, N. Matsumoto, K. Ohyama, K. Kawano

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43rd NIPS International Symposium
Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P54

Is this a new type of progressive prosopagnosia?
Azusa Sugimoto, Shinichi Koyama, Akira Midorikawa, Akinori Futamura,
Mitsuru Kawamura

P55

Relationship between the trait and emotion dimensions of face perception
Atsunobu Suzuki, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Ryuta Suzuki, Hiroyuki Yoshida, Hiroshi Yamada

P56

Neural substrates involved in recognition of tears on the face: an fMRI study
Haruka K. Takahashi, Ryo Kitada, Akihiro T. Sasaki, Hiroaki Kawamichi, Norihiro Sadato

P57

Representation of Target Identity in the Monkey Hippocampus
Ryoi Tamura, Satoshi Eifuku

P58

Mapping human face and object responsive visual areas by spin-echo and gradient-echo
fMRI
Topi Tanskanen, R. Allen Waggoner, Kenichi Ueno, Keiji Tanaka, Kang Cheng

P59

Facial behavioral communication markers in three-party conversations
Hiroko Tokunaga, Naoki Mukawa, Masahide Yuasa, Atsushi Kimura

P60

Prediction of face image by biographical information
Satoshi Tsujimoto

P61

Geometrical aspects in the face inversion effect: an MEG study
Aki Tsuruhara, Koji Inui, Ryusuke Kakigi

P62

Hallucinations and pareidolias of faces in dementia with Lewy bodies
Makoto Uchiyama, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Kayoko Yokoi, Etsuro Mori

P63

Task-irrelevant peripheral happy faces facilitate visual search
Yoshiyuki Ueda and Sakiko Yoshikawa

P64

Holistic processing at the key to human face perception expertise: evidence from eye-gaze
contingent stimulus presentation
Goedele Van Belle, Philippe Lefèvre, Bruno Rossion

P65

High-resolution fMRI reveals cortical tiling of face and limb selectivity in human highlevel visual cortex
Kevin S. Weiner, Kalanit Grill-Spector

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Face Perception and Recognition

Poster
Nov 1 (Thu)
17:00-19:00
P66

Morphing human into monkey face: species-specific face processing and facecategorization
Emi Yamada, Katsuya Ogata, Tomokazu Urakawa, Shozo Tobimatsu

P67

Development of face recognition in children with autism spectrum disorders: Analysis ofcognitive and social function
Junichi Yamamoto, Soichiro Matsuda, Hitomi Kuma, Airi Kato

P68

Gaze direction affects the 3D face recognition in infant
Wakayo Yamashita, So Kanazawa, Masami K.Yamaguchi, Ryusuke Kakigi

P69

Hallucinators see faces in noises - Pareidolic illusions in dementia with Lewy bodies Kayoko Yokoi, Yoshiyuki Nishio, Makoto Uchiyama and Etsuro Mori

P70

Perceived dominance of facial expression in face-to-face scenes
Sakiko Yoshikawa and Yoshiyuki Ueda

P71

Brain activity associated with a situation model of verbal and nonverbal behaviors inconversation: An fMRI study
Masahide Yuasa, Akira Toyomura and Naoki Mukawa

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