Eleanor Cox Riggs Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
My research program focuses on the neural basis of social cognition - the ability to interpret the actions, intentions and emotions of others. Implicit/explicit aspects of non-verbal communication is a main theme, as is the context in which the action occurs. We use activation tasks that attempt to mimic real-life situations. Our experiments use multimodal neuroimaging methods, including behavior, EEG, fMRI, event-related respomse, eye tracking and white matter tractography. Relevant techniques are determined by the particular scientific question being asked. We also are involved in MEG studies via a collaboration.
Babo-Rebelo M, Puce A, Bullock D, Dinkelacker V, Hugueville L, Pestilli F, Adam C, Lehongre K, Lambrecq V, George N. (2021) Gaze and emotion in faces: intracranial ERP reactivity and putative white matter connections. Cerebral Cortex Jul 31; bhab212.
Chaumon M, Puce A, George N. (2021) Statistical power: implications for planning MEG studies. NeuroImage Jun;233: 117894
Pernet P, Garrido M, Gramfort A, Maurits N, Michel C, Pang E, Salmelin R, Schoffelen JM, Valdes-Sosa PA, Puce A. (2020) Issues and recommendations from the OHBM COBIDAS MEEG committee for reproducible EEG and MEG research. Nature Neuroscience 23: 1473-1483.
Puce A, Hämäläinen M. (2017) A review of issues related to data acquisition and analysis in EEG/MEG studies. Invited review: Best Practices in Social Neuroscience. Brain Sciences 7: 58.
Hari R & Puce A (2017) MEG-EEG Primer. 1st Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
daSilva EB, Crager K, Geisler D, Newbern P, Orem B, Puce A. (2016) Something to sink your teeth into: The presence of teeth augments ERPs to mouth expressions. NeuroImage 127: 227-241.
Latinus M, Love SA, Rossi A, Parada FJ, Huang L, Conty L, George N, James K, Puce A. (2015) Social decisions affect neural activity to perceived dynamic gaze. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10: 1557-1567.
Rossi, A, Parada FJ, Kolchinsky A, Puce A. (2014) Neural correlates of apparent motion perception of impoverished facial stimuli: A comparison of ERP and ERSP activity. NeuroImage 98: 442-459.
Ulloa JL, Puce A, Hugueville L, George N. (2014) Sustained neural activity to gaze and emotion perception in dynamic social scenes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 9: 350-357.
Brefczynski-Lewis J, Lowitzsch S, Parsons MW, Lemieux SK, Puce A. (2009) Audiovisual non-verbal dynamic faces elicit converging fMRI and ERP responses. Brain Topography 21: 193-206.
Hardee JE, Thompson JC, Puce A. The left amygdala knows fear: Laterality in the amygdala response to fearful eyes. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 3: 47-54.
Schroeder CE, Lakatos P, Kajikawa Y, Partan S, Puce A. (2008) Opinion: Neuronal oscillations and visual amplification of speech. Trends in Cognitive Science 12: 106-113.
Puce A, Epling JA, Thompson JC, Carrick OK. (2007) Neural responses elicited to face and vocalization pairings. Neuropsychologia 45: 93-106.
Thompson JC, Clarke M, Stewart T, Puce A. (2005) Configural processing of biological movement in human superior temporal sulcus. Journal of Neuroscience 25: 9059-9066.
Puce A & Perrett D. (2003) Electrophysiology and brain imaging of biological motion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) B138: 435-446.
Allison T, Puce A, McCarthy G. (2000) Social perception from visual cues: role of the STS region. Trends Cog Sci 4:267-278.
Puce A, Allison T, McCarthy G. (1999) Electrophysiological studies of human face perception. III. Effects of top-down processing on face-specific potentials. Cerebral Cortex 9: 445-458.
Puce A, Allison T, Gore JC, McCarthy G. (1995) Face-sensitive regions in human extrastriate cortex studied by functional MRI. Journal of Neurophysiology 74: 1192-1199.
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