Behavioral and neural markers of visual configural processing in social scene perception

E Abassi, L Papeo - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Research on face perception has revealed highly specialized visual mechanisms such as
configural processing, and provided markers of interindividual differences–including …

CNNs reveal the computational implausibility of the expertise hypothesis

N Kanwisher, P Gupta, K Dobs - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Face perception has long served as a classic example of domain specificity of mind and
brain. But an alternative" expertise" hypothesis holds that putatively face-specific …

Behavioral signatures of face perception emerge in deep neural networks optimized for face recognition

K Dobs, J Yuan, J Martinez… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Human face recognition is highly accurate and exhibits a number of distinctive and well-
documented behavioral “signatures” such as the use of a characteristic representational …

Inversion effects for faces and objects in developmental prosopagnosia: A case series analysis

SK Klargaard, R Starrfelt, C Gerlach - Neuropsychologia, 2018 - Elsevier
The disproportionate face inversion effect (dFIE) concerns the finding that face recognition is
more affected by inversion than recognition of non-face objects; an effect assumed to reflect …

The good, the bad, and the average: Characterizing the relationship between face and object processing across the face recognition spectrum

RK Hendel, R Starrfelt, C Gerlach - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Face recognition skills vary considerably both in the normal population and in various
clinical groups, and understanding the cognitive mechanisms contributing to this variability …

[HTML][HTML] The face inversion effect or the face upright effect?

C Gerlach, CD Kühn, AB Mathiassen, CL Kristensen… - Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
The face inversion effect (FIE) refers to the observation that presenting stimuli upside-down
impairs the processing of faces disproportionally more than other mono-oriented objects …

The development of upright face perception depends on evolved orientation-specific mechanisms and experience

B Duchaine, C Rezlescu, L Garrido, Y Zhang… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Here we examine whether our impressive ability to perceive upright faces arises from
evolved orientation-specific mechanisms, our extensive experience with upright faces, or …

Patterns of perceptual performance in developmental prosopagnosia: An in-depth case series

C Gerlach, R Starrfelt - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a syndrome characterized by lifelong impairment in
face recognition in the absence of brain damage. A key question regarding DP concerns …

The rehabilitation of object agnosia and prosopagnosia: A systematic review

S Gobbo, R Calati, MC Silveri, E Pini… - Restorative Neurology …, 2022 - content.iospress.com
Background: Agnosia for objects is often overlooked in neuropsychology, especially with
respect to rehabilitation. Prosopagnosia has been studied more extensively, yet there have …

Persistent prosopagnosia following COVID-19

ML Kieseler, B Duchaine - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 can cause psychological problems including loss of smell and taste, long-lasting
memory, speech, and language impairments, and psychosis. Here, we provide the first …