EEG alpha band functional connectivity reveals distinct cortical dynamics for overt and covert emotional face processing

A rapid and efficient mechanism for face processing, which allows us to derive information about others, is a critical feature of human and non-human primates’ socio-cognitive abilities. Faces are indeed the most important non-verbal cue for social interaction, providing clues and signals that allow us to extract, in a very short time frame, a large variety of information about others, like identity, gender, and ethnicity^1,2. Most importantly, for the purpose of the present study, we can evaluate others’ emotional expressions, harvesting critical information for inferring others’…