In this review, we are pitting two theories against each other: the more accepted theory, the
number sense theory, suggesting that a sense of number is innate and non-symbolic …

According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to
become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has …

Is the human mind/brain composed of a set of highly specialized components, each carrying
out a specific aspect of human cognition, or is it more of a general-purpose device, in which …

The concept of holistic processing is a cornerstone of face recognition research, yet central
questions related to holistic processing remain unanswered, and debates have thus far …

Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
belong to different faces, showing that the parts of a face cannot be perceived independently …

We propose to bring together the hitherto rather separate research fields of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and argue that by …

Increasingly, the neural mechanisms that support visual cognition are being conceptualized
as a distributed but integrated system, as opposed to a set of individual, specialized regions …

Animal cognition experiments frequently reveal striking individual variation but rarely
consider its causes and largely ignore its potential consequences. Studies often focus on a …

Various forms of category-specificity have been described at both the cognitive and neural
levels, inviting the inference that different semantic domains are processed by distinct …

The ability to recognize an individual face is essential to human social interaction. Even
subtle errors in this process can have huge implications for the way we relate to social …