In this review we examine how attention is involved in detecting faces, recognizing facial
identity and registering and discriminating between facial expressions of emotion. The first …

A load theory of attention in which distractor rejection depends on the level and type of load
involved in current processing was tested. A series of experiments demonstrates that …

It has been established that successful ignoring of irrelevant distractors depends on the
extent to which the current task loads attention. However, the previous load studies have …

It has been suggested that the locus of selective attention (early vs. late in processing) is
dependent on the perceptual load of the task. When perceptual load is low, irrelevant …

Although the perceptual load theory of attention has stimulated a great deal of research,
evidence for the role of perceptual load in determining perception has typically relied on …

Recent research indicates that emotional faces affect motor control only when task-relevant.
However, these studies utilized a single-face presentation, which does not accurately mirror …

In everyday life, human faces are encountered in many different views. Despite this fact,
most psychological research has focused on the perception of frontal faces. To address this …

Holistic processing (HP) of faces can be inferred from failure to selectively attend to part of a
face. We explored how encoding time affects HP of faces by manipulating exposure duration …

We used event-related potential (ERP) methodology to examine neural activity associated
with visual working memory (WM) for faces. There were two main goals. First, to extend …

A theme that emerges in life is that it is advantageous to be good looking. Corroborating this
observation, an expansive literature has documented the benefits of facial attractiveness on …