title: Neural pattern similarity reveals the inherent intersection of social categories.
abstract: We provide evidence that neural representations of ostensibly unrelated social categories become bound together by their overlapping stereotype associations. While viewing faces, multi-voxel representations of gender, race, and emotion categories in the fusiform and orbitofrontal cortices were stereotypically biased and correlated with subjective perceptions. The findings suggest that social-conceptual knowledge can systematically alter the representational structure of social categories at multiple levels of cortical processing, reflecting bias in visual perceptions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Stolier
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Freeman
mesh_terms: D001931:Brain Mapping; D005145:Face / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*