Reaction time is believed to be a good indicator of the speed and efficiency of mental
processes and is a ubiquitous variable in the behavioral sciences. Despite this popularity …

Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

Individual differences in cognitive paradigms are increasingly employed to relate cognition
to brain structure, chemistry, and function. However, such efforts are often unfruitful, even …

In a dot-probe task, two cues—one emotional and one neutral—are followed by a probe in
one of their locations. Faster responses to probes co-located with the emotional stimulus are …

The ability to recognize faces varies considerably between individuals, but does
performance co-vary for tests of different aspects of face processing? For 397 participants (of …

Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience come largely from within-subjects
comparisons, in which the functional significance of neural activity is determined by …

Few findings in cognitive science have proved as influential as the composite face effect.
When the top half of one face is aligned with the bottom half of another, and presented …

It is widely accepted that holistic processing is important for face perception. However, it
remains unclear whether the other-race effect (ORE)(ie superior recognition for own-race …

Traditionally, recognizing the objects within a scene has been treated as a prerequisite to
recognizing the scene itself. However, research now suggests that the ability to rapidly …

There is substantial evidence for individual differences in personality and cognitive abilities,
but we lack clear intuitions about individual differences in visual abilities. Previous work on …