We sought to determine whether regions of extrastriate visual cortex could be activated in
subjects viewing eye and mouth movements that occurred within a stationary face. Eleven …

Recent advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have furnished
increasingly informative and accurate maps of the retinotopy and functional organization in …

The cerebral cortex, occupying over 70 percent of our brain mass, is key to any
understanding of the workings--and disorders--of the human brain. offering a …

Children with autism are known to have difficulties in sharing attention with others. Yet one
joint attention behaviour, the ability to follow another person's head turn and gaze direction …

Several theories have been proposed to explain the evolution of species differences in brain
size, but no concensus has emerged. One unresolved question is whether brain size …

In a series of experiments, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), an orangutan (Pongo
pygmaeus), and human infants (Homo sapiens) were investigated as to whether they used …

Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from multiple scalp locations from
young human subjects while they performed two different face processing tasks. The first …

The purpose of this book is to examine the scientific basis of reductionist approaches to
understanding visual perception. It is my belief that, for a variety of reasons, contemporary …

Many studies have suggested that non-human primates have good individual recognition
abilities, that social stimuli can serve as discriminative stimuli in learning tests and that visual …

This chapter reviews factors which affect the perception and recognition of faces by humans,
in order to describe those characteristics that must be exhibited by any computational or …