From birth it is critical for our survival to identify social agents and conspecifics. Among
others stimuli, faces provide the required information. The present paper will review the …

Human faces are one of the most prominent stimuli in the visual environment of young
infants and convey critical information for the development of social cognition. During the …

Consistent with long-standing findings from behavioral studies, neuroimaging investigations
have identified a region of the inferior temporal cortex that, in adults, shows greater face …

Primary vision segregates information along 2 main dimensions: orientation and spatial
frequency (SF). An important question is how this primary visual information is integrated to …

Faces are crucial for nonverbal communication in humans and related species. From the first
moments of life, newborn infants prefer to look at human faces over almost any other form of …

Primates are distinguished from other mammals by their heavy reliance on the visual sense,
which occurred as a result of natural selection continually favoring those individuals whose …

Perception and eye movements are affected by culture. Adults from Eastern societies (eg
China) display a disposition to process information holistically, whereas individuals from …

Individuals with cerebral visual impairment (CVI) frequently report challenges with face
recognition, and subsequent difficulties with social interactions. However, there is limited …

Previous studies showed that, from birth, speech and eye gaze are two important cues in
guiding early face processing and social cognition. These studies tested the role of each cue …

The study investigated the origins of the ability to recognize faces despite rotations in depth.
Four experiments are reported that tested, using the habituation technique, whether 1-to-3 …