Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Yang Z, Freiwald WA (2021) Joint encoding of facial identity, orientation, gaze, and expression in the middle dorsal face area. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A118(33):e2108283118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2108283118. PMID: 34385326.
  2. Landi SM, Viswanathan P, Serene S, Freiwald WA (2021) A fast link between face perception and memory in the temporal pole. Science 373(6554):581-585. doi: 10.1126/science.abi6671. Epub 2021 Jul 1. PMID: 34210891. Abstract Reprint Full Text
  3. Pressl C, Jiang CS, Correa da Rosa J, Friedrich M, Vaughan R, Freiwald WA, Tobin JN (2020) Interrogating an ICD-coded electronic health records database to characterize the epidemiology of prosopagnosia. J Clin Transl Sci. 5(1):e11. doi: 10.1017/cts.2020.497. PMID: 33948237; PMCID: PMC8057409.
  4. Yang C, Zhou Y, Marcus S, Formenti G, Bergeron LA, Song Z, Bi X, Bergman J, Rousselle MMC, Zhou C, Zhou L, Deng Y, Fang M, Xie D, Zhu Y, Tan S, Mountcastle J, Haase B, Balacco J, Wood J, Chow W, Rhie A, Pippel M, Fabiszak MM, Koren S, Fedrigo O, Freiwald WA, Howe K, Yang H, Phillippy AM, Schierup MH, Jarvis ED, Zhang G (2021) Evolutionary and biomedical insights from a marmoset diploid genome assembly. Nature 594(7862):227-233. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03535-x. Epub 2021 Apr 28. PMID: 33910227; PMCID: PMC8189906.
  5. Dunn TW, Marshall JD, Severson KS, Aldarondo DE, Hildebrand DGC, Chettih SN, Wang WL, Gellis AJ, Carlson DE, Aronov D, Freiwald WA, Wang F, Ölveczky BP (2021) Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments. Nat Methods 18(5):564-573. doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01106-6. Epub 2021 Apr 19. PMID: 33875887.
  6. Sani I, Stemmann H, Caron B, Bullock D, Stemmler T, Fahle M, Pestilli F, Freiwald WA (2021) The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node. Nat Commun. 12(1):360. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20583-5. PMID: 33452252; PMCID: PMC7810878.
  7. Schaeffer DJ, Selvanayagam J, Johnston KD, Menon RS, Freiwald WA, Everling S (2020) Face selective patches in marmoset frontal cortex. Nat Commun. 11(1):4856. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18692-2. PMID: 32978385; PMCID: PMC7519082.
  8. Cheleuitte-Nieves CE, Diaz LL, Pardos de la Gandara M, Gonzalez A, Freiwald WA, de Lencastre HM, Tomasz A, Euler CW (2020) Evaluation of Topical Lysostaphin as a Novel Treatment for Instrumented Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) Infected with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Comp Med. 70(5):335-347. doi: 10.30802/AALAS-CM-19-000102. Epub 2020 Aug 13. PMID: 32792040; PMCID: PMC7574217.
  9. Yildirim I, Belledonne M, Freiwald W, Tenenbaum J (2020) Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing. Sci Adv. 6(10):eaax5979. PMID: 32181338, PMCID: PMC7056304.
  10. Stemmann H, Freiwald WA (2019) Evidence for an attentional priority map in inferotemporal cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 116(47):23797-23805. PMID: 31685625, PMCID: PMC6876153.
  11. Sani I, McPherson BC, Stemmann H, Pestilli F, Freiwald WA (2019) Functionally defined white matter of the macaque monkey brain reveals a dorso-ventral attention network. Elife 8. Pii: e40520. PMID: 30601116, PMCID: PMC6345568.
  12. Pardos de la Gandara M, Diaz L, Euler CW, Chung M, Gonzalez A, Cheleuitte C, Freiwald W, Tomasz A, Fischetti VA, de Lencastre H (2019) Staphylococcus aureus Infecting and Colonizing Experimental Animals, Macaques, in a Research Animal Facility. Microb Drug Resist 25(1):54-62. PMID: 30481118, PMCID: PMC6350064.
  13. Pressl C, Brandner P, Schaffelhofer S, Blackmon K, Dugan P, Holmes M, Thesen T, Kuzniecky R, Devinsky O, Freiwald WA (2019) Resting state functional connectivity patterns associated with pharmacological treatment resistance in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 149:37-43. PMID: 30472489, PMCID: PMC30472489.
  14. Shepherd SV, Freiwald WA (2018) Functional Networks for Social Communication in the Macaque Monkey. Neuron 99(2):413-420.e3. PMID: 30017395, PMCID: PMC30017395.
  15. Caruso VC, Mohl JT, Glynn C, Lee J, Willett SM, Zaman A, Ebihara AF, Estrada R, Freiwald WA, Tokdar ST, Groh JM (2018) Single neurons may encode simultaneous stimuli by switching between activity pattersons. Nat Commun. 9(1):2715. PMID: 30006598, PMCID: PMC6045601.
  16. Gorman AW, Deh KM, Schwiedrzik CM, White JR, Groman EV, Fisher CA, Gillen KM, Spincemaille P, Rasmussen S, Prince MR, Voss HU, Freiwald WA, Wang Y (2019) Brain Iron Distribution after Multiple Doses of Ultra-small Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Particles in Rats. Comp Med. 68(2):139-147. PMID: 29631654, PMCID: PMC5897970.
  17. Schwiedrzik CM, Freiwald WA (2017) High-Level Prediction Signals in a Low-Level Area of the Macaque Face-Processing Hierarchy. Neuron 96(1):89-97.e4. PMID: 28957679, PMCID: PMC5757317.
  18. Landi SM, Freiwald WA (2017) Two areas for familiar face recognition in the primate brain. Science 357(6351):591-595. PMID: 28798130, PMCID: PMC5612776.
  19. Sliwa J, Freiwald WA (2017) A Dedicated Network for Social Interaction Processing in the Primate Brain. Science 356(6339):745-749. PMID: 28522533, PMCID: PMC5540642.
  20. Sadagopan S, Zarco W, Freiwald WA (2017) A causal relationship between face-patch activity and face-detection behavior. eLife 20176;6:e18558. doi: 10.7554/eLife.18558. PMID: 28375078, PMCID: PMC5380432.
  21. Takemura H, Pestilli F, Weiner KS, Keliris GA, Landi SM, Sliwa J, Ye FQ, Barnett MA, Leopold DA, Freiwald WA, Logothetis NK, Wandell BA (2017) Occipital White Matter Tracts in Human and Macaque. Cereb Cortex (23:1-14). doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx070. PMID: 2836929, PMCID: PMC5890896.
  22. Leibo JZ, Liao Q, Anselmi F, Freiwald WA, Poggio T (2017) View-Tolerant Face Rcognition and     Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation. Curr Biol. 27(1):62-67. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.015. PMID: 27916522, PMCID: PMC5319833.
  23. Stemmann H, Freiwald WA (2016) Attentive Motion Discrimination Recruits an Area in Inferotemporal Cortex. J Neurosci. 36(47):11918-11928. PMID: 27881778, PMCID: PMC5125246.
  24. Fisher C, Freiwald WA (2015) Whole-agent selectivity within the macaque face-processing system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 112(47):14717-22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1512378112. PMID: 26464511, PMCID: PMC4664356.
  25. Schwiedrzik CM, Zarco W, Everling S, Freiwald WA (2015) Face patch resting state networks link face processing to social cognition. PLoS Biol 13(9): e1002245. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002245. PMID: 26348613, PMCID: PMC4562659.
  26. Meyers E, Borzello M, Freiwald WA, Tsao D (2015) Intelligent information loss: the coding of facial identity, head pose, and non-face information in the macaque face patch system. J Neurosci 35(18):7069-81. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3086-14.2015. PMID: 25948258, PMCID: PMC4420777.
  27. Fisher C, Freiwald WA (2015) Contrasting Specializations for Facial Motion within the Macaque Face-Processing System. Curr Biol 25(2):261-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.038. PMID: 25578903, PMCID: PMC4302012.
    Commentary by Weiner & Grill-Spector (2015) The evolution of face processing networks, Trends in Cog Sci 19(5):240-1
  28. Polosecki P, Moeller S, Schweers N, Romanski LM, Tsao DY, Freiwald WA (2013) Faces in motion: selectivity of macaque and human face processing areas for dynamic stimuli. J Neurosci 33(29):11768-73. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5402-11.2013. PMID: 23864665, PMCID: PMC3713719.
  29. Ohayon S, Freiwald WA, Tsao DY (2012) What makes a cell face-selective? The importance of contrast. Neuron 74(3):567-581. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.03.024. PMID: 22578507, PMCID: PMC3354534.
    Commentary by Vogels R (2012) Face Selectivity Properties of Monkey Temporal Cortical Neurons Predicted by Computer Vision. Neuron 74(3):429-31
  30. Freiwald WA*, Tsao DY* (2010) Functional compartmentalization and viewpoint generalization within the macaque face-processing system. Science 330:845-851. doi: 10.1126/science.1194908. PMID: 21051642, PMCID: PMC3181095 * co-first authors.
    Commentary by Connor CE (2010) A new viewpoint on faces. Science 330:764-5
  31. Freiwald WA*, Tsao DY*, Livingstone, MS (2009) A Face Feature Space in the Macaque Temporal Lobe. Nat Neurosci 12(9): 1187-96. doi: 10.1038/nn.2363. PMID: 19668199, PMCID: PMC2819705  * co-first authors.
    Commentary by Jagadeesh B (2009) Recognizing grandmother. Nat Neurosci 12(9):183-5
  32. Moeller S, Nallasamy N, Tsao DY, Freiwald WA (2009) Functional Connectivity of the Macaque Brain across Stimulus and Arousal States. J Neurosci 29: 5897-5909. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0220-09.2009. PMID: 19420256.
  33. Tsao DY, Moeller S, Freiwald WA (2008) Comparing face patch systems in macaques and humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105(49): 19514-19519. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0809662105. PMID: 19033466, PMCID: PMC2614792.
  34. Tsao DY, Schweers N, Moeller S, Freiwald WA (2008) Patches of Face-Selective Cortex in the Macaque Frontal Lobe. Nat Neurosci 11(8): 877-879. doi: 10.1038/nn.2158. PMID: 18622399.
  35. Moeller S, Freiwald WA, Tsao DY (2008) Patches with Links: a Unified System for Processing Faces in the Macaque Temporal Lobe. Science 320(5881):1355-1359. doi: 10.1126/science.1157436. PMID: 18535247.
  36. Wannig A, Rodríguez V, Freiwald WA (2007): Attention to Surfaces Modulates Motion Processing in Extrastriate Area MT. Neuron 54(4): 639-651. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.05.001. PMID: 17521575.
  37. Tsao DY*, Freiwald WA*, Tootell RBH, Livingstone MS (2006): A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells. Science 311(5761):670-674. doi: 10.1126/science.1119983. PMID: 16456083, PMCID: PMC2678572  * co-first authors.
    Commentary by Kanwisher N (2006): What’s in a Face? Science 311(5761):617-8
  38. Taylor K, Mandon S, Freiwald WA, Kreiter AK (2005) Coherent Oscillatory Activity in Monkey Area V4 Predicts Successful Allocation of Attention. Cereb Cortex 15(9):1424-1437. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhi023. PMID: 15659657.
  39. Stemmann H, Freiwald WA, Wannig A, Schulzke E, Eurich CW (2005) Encoding of Dynamic Visual Stimuli by Primate Area MT Neurons. Neurocomputing 65-66: 135-142.
  40. Wegener D, Freiwald WA, Kreiter AK (2004) The influence of sustained selective attention on stimulus selectivity in macaque area MT. J Neurosci 24(27):6106-6114. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1459-04.2004. PMID: 15240802.
  41. Tallon-Baudry C, Mandon S, Freiwald WA, Kreiter A (2004) Oscillatory synchrony in the monkey temporal lobe correlates with performance in a visual short-term memory task. Cereb Cortex 14(7): 713-710. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh031. PMID: 15054050.
  42. Tsao DY, Freiwald WA, Knutsen TA, Mandeville JB, and Tootell RBH (2003) Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex. Nat Neurosci 6(9): 989-995. doi:10.1038/nn1111. PMID: 12925854.
  43. Freiwald W, Stemmann H, Wannig A, Kreiter AK, Hofmann UG, Hills MD, Kovacs GTA, Kewley DT, Bower JM, Etzold A, Eurich CW, Wilke SD (2002) Stimulus representation in rat primary visual cortex: multi-electrode recordings and estimation theory. Neurocomputing 44-46: 407-416.
  44. Rodríguez V, Valdés-Sosa M, Freiwald W (2002) Dividing attention between form and motion during transparent surface perception. Cogn Brain Res 13(2): 187-193. PMID: 11958961.
  45. Martignon L, Deco G, Laskey K, Diamond M, Freiwald WA, Vaadia E  (2000) Neural coding: higher order temporal patterns in the neurostatistics of cell assemblies. Neural Comput 12(11): 2621-2653. PMID: 11110130.
  46. Freiwald WA, Valdes P, Jiminez JC, Rodriguez LM, Biscay R, Rodriguez V, Kreiter AK, Singer W (1999) Testing non-linearity and directedness of interactions between neural groups in the macaque inferotemporal cortex. J Neurosci Methods 94(1): 105-119. PMID: 10638819.
  47. Freiwald WA, Kreiter AK, Singer W (1995) Stimulus dependent intercolumnar synchronization of single unit responses in cat area 17. Neuroreport 6(17):2348-2352. PMID: 8747151.

Reviews and Concept Papers

  1. Freiwald WA, Hosoya H. Neuroscience: A Face's Journey through Space and Time (2021) Curr Biol. 31(1):R13-R15. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.10.065. PMID: 33434477.
  2. Freiwald WA (2020) Gross means Great. Prog Neurobiol. 195:101924. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101924. Epub 2020 Oct 13. PMID: 33058963.
  3. Freiwald WA (2020) Social interaction networks in the primate brain. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 65:49-58. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.08.012. Epub 2020 Oct 13. PMID: 33065333.
  4. Freiwald WA (2020) The neural mechanisms of face processing: cells, areas, networks, and models.  Curr Opin Neurobiol 60:184-191. PMID: 31958622, PMCID: PMC7017471.
  5. Milham M, Petkov CI, Margulies DS, Schroeder CE, Basso MA, Belin P, Fair DA, Fox A, Kastner S, Mars RB, Messinger A, Poirier C, Vanduffel W, Van Essen DC, Alvand A, Becker Y, Ben Hamed S, Benn A, Bodin C, Boretius S, Cagna B, Coulon O, El-Gohary SH, Evrard H, Forkel SJ, Friedrich P, Froudist-Walsh S, Garza-Villarreal EA, Gao Y, Gozzi A, Grigis A, Hartig R, Hayashi T, Heuer K, Howells H, Ardesch DJ, Jarraya B, Jarrett W, Jedema HP, Kagan I, Kelly C, Kennedy H, Klink PC, Kwok SC, Leech R, Liu X, Madan C, Madushanka W, Majka P, Mallon AM, Marche K, Meguerditchian A, Menon RS, Merchant H, Mitchell A, Nenning KH, Nikolaidis A, Ortiz-Rios M, Pagani M, Pareek V, Prescott M, Procyk E, Rajimehr R, Rautu IS, Raz A, Roe AW, Rossi-Pool R, Roumazeilles L, Sakai T, Sallet J, García-Saldivar P, Sato C, Sawiak S, Schiffer M, Schwiedrzik CM, Seidlitz J, Sein J, Shen ZM, Shmuel A, Silva AC, Simone L, Sirmpilatze N, Sliwa J, Smallwood J, Tasserie J, Thiebaut de Schotten M, Toro R, Trapeau R, Uhrig L, Vezoli J, Wang Z, Wells S, Williams B, Xu T, Xu AG, Yacoub E, Zhan M, Ai L, Amiez C, Balezeau F, Baxter MG, Blezer ELA, Brochier T, Chen A, Croxson PL, Damatac CG, Dehaene S, Everling S, Fleysher L, Freiwald W, Griffiths TD, Guedj C, Hadj-Bouziane F, Harel N, Hiba B, Jung B, Koo B, Laland KN, Leopold DA, Lindenfors P, Meunier M, Mok K, Morrison JH, Nacef J, Nagy J, Pinsk M, Reader SM, Roelfsema PR, Rudko DA, Rushworth MFS, Russ BE, Schmid MC, Sullivan EL, Thiele A, Todorov OS, Tsao D, Ungerleider L, Wilson CRE, Ye FQ, Zarco W, Zhou YD. (2020) Accelerating the evolution of nonhuman primate neuroimaging. Neuron 105(4):600-603. PMID: 32078795.
  6. Milham MP, Ai L, Koo B, Xu T, Amiez C, Balezeau F, Baxter MG, Blezer ELA, Brochier T, Chen A, Croxson PL, Damatac CG, Dehaene S, Everling S, Fair DA, Fleysher L, Freiwald W, Froudist-Walsh S, Griffiths TD, Guedj C, Hadj-Bouziane F, Ben Hamed S, Harel N, Hiba B, Jarraya B, Jung B, Kastner S, Klink PC, Kwok SC, Laland KN, Leopold DA, Lindenfors P, Mars RB, Menon RS, Messinger A, Meunier M, Mok K, Morrison JH, Nacef J, Nagy J, Rios MO, Petkov CI, Pinsk M, Poirier C, Procyk E, Rajimehr R, Reader SM, Roelfsema PR, Rudko DA, Rushworth MFS, Russ BE, Sallet J, Schmid MC, Schwiedrzik CM, Seidlitz J, Sein J, Shmuel A, Sullivan EL, Ungerleider L, Thiele A, Todorov OS, Tsao D, Wang Z, Wilson CRE, Yacoub E, Ye FQ, Zarco W, Zhou YD, Margulies DS, Schroeder CE. (2018) An open resource for non-human primate imaging. Neuron 100(1):61-74. PMID: 30269990, PMCID: PMC6231397
  7. Miller CT, Freiwald WA, Leopold DA, Mitchell JF, Silva AC, Wang X (2016) Marmosets: A Neuroscientific Model of Human Social Behavior. Neuron 90(2):219-33. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.018. PMID: 27100195, PMCID: PMC4840471.
  8. Freiwald W, Duchaine B, Yovel G (2016) Face Processing Systems: From Neurons to Real-World Social Perception. Annu Rev Neurosci. 39:325-46. doi: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-070815-013934. PMID: 27442071, PMCID: PMC5345271.
  9. Freiwald WA, Tsao DY (2014) Neurons that keep a straight face. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111(22):7894-7895. doi:10.1073/pnas.1406865111. PMID: 24911007, PMCID: PMC4050554.
  10. Yovel G, Freiwald WA (2013) Face recognition systems in monkey and human: are they the same thing? F1000Prime Rep 5:10. doi: 10.12703/P5-10. PMID: 23585928, PMCID: PMC3619156.
  11. Brecht M, Freiwald WA (2012) The many facets of facial interactions in mammals. Curr Opin Neurobiol 22(2):359-366. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.12.003. PMID: 22209040.
  12. Cole MW, Yeung N, Freiwald WA, Botvinick M (2010) Conflict over Cingulate Cortex: Between-Species Differences in Cingulate May Support Enhanced Cognitive Flexibility in Humans. Brain Behav Evol 75:239-240. doi: 10.1159/000313860. PMID: 20693782.
  13. Cole MW, Yeung N, Freiwald WA, Botvinick M (2009) Cingulate Cortex: Diverging data from humans and monkeys. Trends Neurosci 32(11): 566-574. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.07.001. PMID: 19781794.
  14. Freiwald WA (2007) Attention to Objects made of Features. Trends Cogn Sci 11(11): 453-454. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.08.010. PMID: 17980643.
  15. Tsao DY, Freiwald WA (2006) What’s so special about the average face? Trends Cogn Sci 10(9):391-393. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2006.07.009. PMID: 16899396.
  16. Freiwald WA, Kreiter AK, Singer W (2001) Synchronization and assembly formation in the visual cortex. Prog Brain Res 130:111-140. PMID: 11480271.

Supplemental Materials

 

Journal ArticlesYang Z, Freiwald WA (2021) Joint encoding of facial identity, orientation, gaze, and expression in the middle dorsal face area. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A118(33):e2108283118. do