Visual expertise in fingerprint examiners was addressed in one behavioral and one
electrophysiological experiment. In an X-AB matching task with fingerprint fragments …

Do we identify an object as a whole or by its parts? This simple question has been
surprisingly hard to answer. It has been suggested that faces are recognized as wholes and …

Despite an obvious demand for a variety of statistical tests adapted to classification images,
few have been proposed. We argue that two statistical tests based on random field theory …

One of the most impressive disorders following brain damage to the ventral occipitotemporal
cortex is prosopagnosia, or the inability to recognize faces. Although acquired …

Accurately perceiving the activities of other people is a crucially important social skill of
obvious survival value. Human vision is equipped with highly sensitive mechanisms for …

How well do classification images characterize human observers' strategies in perceptual
tasks? We show mathematically that from the classification image of a noisy linear observer …

The perception of a stimulus can be impaired when presented in the context of a masking
pattern. To determine the timing and the nature of face processing, the effect of various …

We investigated the representation of objects' position at the higher, shape-selective stages
of visual processing by testing the position-specificity of the behavioural and neural effects of …

DOI: 10.1068/p5398 bottom-lit face stimuli in both photographic positive and negative
conditions. They found that stereo information did not reduce any of the shading effects, so …

There is behavioral evidence that different visual categorization tasks on various types of
stimuli (eg faces) are sensitive to distinct visual characteristics of the same image, for …