We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

Adults' expertise in recognizing faces has been attributed to configural processing. We
distinguish three types of configural processing: detecting the first-order relations that define …

Most studies investigating the recognition of facial expressions have focused on static
displays of intense expressions. Consequently, researchers may have underestimated the …

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

Using ERPs in a face recognition task, we investigated whether inversion and contrast
reversal, which seem to disrupt different aspects of face configuration, differentially affected …

Studies on human monetary prediction and decision making emphasize the role of the
striatum in encoding prediction errors for financial reward. However, less is known about …

The face inversion effect (FIE) is defined as the larger decrease in recognition performance
for faces than for other mono-oriented objects when they are presented upside down …

Humans are remarkably adept at recognizing objects across a wide range of views. A
notable exception to this general rule is that turning a face upside down makes it particularly …

Behavioral sensitivity to object transformations and the response to novel objects (Greebles)
in the fusiform face area (FFA) was measured several times during expertise training …

Studies of perceptual expertise typically ask whether the mechanisms underlying face
recognition are domain specific or domain general. This debate has so dominated the …