Gaze—where one looks, how long, and when—plays an essential part in human social
behavior. While many aspects of social gaze have been reviewed, there is no …

The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

It remains controversial whether culture modulates eye movement behavior in face
recognition. Inconsistent results have been reported regarding whether cultural differences …

Following traumatic brain injury in adulthood, Pierrette Sapey (PS) became suddenly unable
to recognize the identity of people from their faces. Thanks to her remarkable recovery of …

Facial expressions of emotion are dynamic in nature, but most studies on the visual
strategies underlying the recognition of facial emotions have used static stimuli. The present …

Theatrocracy is a book about the power of the theatre, how it can affect the people who
experience it, and the societies within which it is embedded. It takes as its model the earliest …

How is the human brain shaped by our sociocultural experiences? What neural correlates
underlie the extraordinary cultural diversity of human behavior? How do our genes interact …

Recent laboratory studies have found large, stable individual differences in the location
people first fixate when identifying faces, ranging from the brows to the mouth. Importantly …

The human face transmits a wealth of signals that readily provide crucial information for
social interactions, such as facial identity and emotional expression. Nonetheless, a …

Holistic and analytic thinking are two distinct modes of thinking used to interpret the world
with relative preferences varying across cultures. While most research on these thinking …