In 1959, Oliver Selfridge proposed a model of letter perception, the Pandemonium model, in
which the central hypothesis was that letters are identified via their component features …

Visual perception can be influenced by top-down processes related to the observer's goals
and expectations, as well as by bottom-up processes related to low-level stimulus attributes …

Visual recognition of objects is an impressively difficult problem that biological systems solve
effortlessly. We consider two aspects of this ability. First, is the recognition of all objects …

When viewing a human face, people often look toward the eyes. Maintaining good eye
contact carries significant social value and allows for the extraction of information about …

Everyday, people flexibly perform different categorizations of common faces, objects and
scenes. Intuition and scattered evidence suggest that these categorizations require the use …

We have recently proposed a center-periphery organization based on resolution needs, in
which objects engaging in recognition processes requiring central-vision (eg, face-related) …

Seeking to understand how people recognize objects, we have examined how they identify
letters. We expected this 26-way classification of familiar forms to challenge the popular …

Faces are perceived holistically, a phenomenon best illustrated when the processing of a
face feature is affected by the other features. Here, the authors tested the hypothesis that the …

Humans are remarkably adept at recognizing objects across a wide range of views. A
notable exception to this general rule is that turning a face upside down makes it particularly …

Recognition of facial expressions of emotion was investigated in people with medicated and
unmedicated Parkinson's disease (PD) and matched controls (unmedicated PD, n= 16; …