Individual differences and the multidimensional nature of face perception

D White, AM Burton - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

From convolutional neural networks to models of higher‐level cognition (and back again)

RM Battleday, JC Peterson… - Annals of the New York …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The remarkable successes of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in modern computer
vision are by now well known, and they are increasingly being explored as computational …

[HTML][HTML] Selecting police super-recognisers

JD Dunn, A Towler, RI Kemp, D White - PLoS One, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
People vary in their ability to recognise faces. These individual differences are consistent
over time, heritable and associated with brain anatomy. This implies that face identity …

Novel and familiar object recognition rely on the same ability.

MA Sunday, A Tomarken, SJ Cho… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
There is recent evidence for a domain-general object recognition ability, called O, which is
distinct from general intelligence and other cognitive and personality constructs. We extend …

[HTML][HTML] Individual differences in visual search: A systematic review of the link between visual search performance and traits or abilities

J Wagner, A Zurlo, E Rusconi - Cortex, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Visual search (VS) comprises a class of tasks that we typically perform several times during
a day and requires intentionally scanning (with or without moving the eyes) the environment …

Distinct but related abilities for visual and haptic object recognition

JK Chow, TJ Palmeri, I Gauthier - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2024‏ - Springer
People vary in their ability to recognize objects visually. Individual differences for matching
and recognizing objects visually is supported by a domain-general ability capturing common …

Domain-general ability underlies complex object ensemble processing.

TY Chang, I Gauthier - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2022‏ - psycnet.apa.org
When seeing groups of objects, various features can be extracted to form an ensemble
representation, including low-level features such as orientation and higher-level features …

Domain-specific experience determines individual differences in holistic processing.

KW Chua, I Gauthier - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2020‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Holistic processing refers to the processing of objects as wholes rather than in a piecemeal,
part-based fashion. Despite a suggested link between expertise and holistic processing, the …

Haptic object recognition based on shape relates to visual object recognition ability

JK Chow, TJ Palmeri, I Gauthier - Psychological Research, 2022‏ - Springer
Visual object recognition depends in large part on a domain-general ability (Richler et al.
Psychol Rev 126 (2): 226–251, 2019). Given evidence pointing towards shared mechanisms …

Challenges in replication: Does amygdala gray matter volume relate to social network size?

RW McGugin, A Roche, J Ma, I Gauthier - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2024‏ - Springer
In this work, we tried to replicate and extend prior research on the relationship between
social network size and the volume of the amygdala. We focused on the earliest evidence for …