When distinguishing whether a face displays a certain emotion, some regions of the face
may contain more useful information than others. Here we ask whether people differentially …

Research on language comprehension has focused on the resolution of syntactic
ambiguities, and most studies have employed garden-path sentences to determine the …

Background Face processing, amongst many basic visual skills, is thought to be invariant
across all humans. From as early as 1965, studies of eye movements have consistently …

In a free viewing learning condition, participants were allowed to move their eyes naturally
as they learned a set of new faces. In a restricted viewing learning condition, participants …

Presenting a face stimulus upside-down generally causes a larger deficit in perceiving
metric distances between facial features (“configuration”) than local properties of these …

As many as two million people in the United Kingdom repeatedly see people, animals, and
objects that have no objective reality. Hallucinations on the border of sleep, dementing …

We propose an approach that allows a rigorous understanding of the visual categorization
and recognition process without asking direct questions about unobservable memory …

The present study examined how social attention is influenced by social content and the
presence of items that are available for attention. We monitored observers' eye movements …

The own-race bias (ORB) is a well-known finding wherein people are better able to
recognize and discriminate own-race faces, relative to cross-race faces. In 2 experiments …

Emotion identification appears to decline with age, and deficient visual scanning may
contribute to this effect. Eye movements of 20 older adults (OAs) and 20 younger adults …