The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …

Visual coding is a highly dynamic process and continuously adapting to the current viewing
context. The perceptual changes that result from adaptation to recently viewed stimuli …

The visual appearance of others' bodies is a powerful source of information about the
people around us. This information is implicit in the stimulus and must be extracted and …

Sensory systems constantly adapt their responses to match the current environment. These
adjustments occur at many levels of the system and increasingly appear to calibrate even for …

Reward is thought to motivate animal-approach behavior in part by automatically facilitating
the perceptual processing of reward-associated visual stimuli. Studies have demonstrated …

Recent studies have suggested the existence of human sex pheromones, with particular
interest in two human steroids: androstadienone (androsta-4, 16,-dien-3-one) and …

Although many studies have reported face identity recognition deficits in autism spectrum
disorders (ASD), two fundamental question remains: 1) Is this deficit “process specific” for …

The human “person” is a common percept we encounter. Research on person perception
has been focused either on face or body perception—with less attention paid to whole …

Evidence suggesting that the brain has specialized mechanisms for processing human
bodies include the discovery of body-selective brain areas and the behavioral body …

Faces and bodies are often treated as distinct categories that are processed separately by
face-and body-selective brain regions in the primate visual system. These regions occupy …