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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Face Perception"”.
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Individual Differences in Face Perception
Faces are ubiquitous in our daily lives, and our ability to perceive and process them drives many important tasks, such as identifying age, emotional state, and health. Despite a rich body of literature on face perception, the mechanisms involved in perceiving and interpreting faces remain …
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Intermediate Level Mechanisms Supporting Face Perception
… the intermediate neural mechanisms involved in face processing may be better understood by studying concentric form-from-structure integration. This dissertation involves behavioral adaptation and masking experiments that provide evidence regarding whether face perception and concentric …
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Knowledge-augmented and context-sensitive face perception
… the inherently contextualized nature of human perception and cognition, demonstrating that context and prior knowledge substantially influence how people perceive and behave. For instance, how someone perceives a smile changes when accompanied by affective biographical information of the …
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The role of pigmentation in face perception
Faces each have distinct pigmentation as well as shape, which suggests that both cues may play a role in the perception of faces. However, there is a common implicit assumption that pigmentation cues are relatively unimportant, and so the role pigmentation plays in face perception has gone largely …
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Face perception : the relationship between identity and expression processing
Current models of face perception suggest independent processing of identity and expression, though this distinction is still unclear. Using converging methods of psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in healthy and patient populations we assessed the relationship between …
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From Face Perception to Individual Recognition: The Missing Link
… of that individual held in memory. In primates, faces play a particularly important role on the sensory side of this process, which is reflected in an extensive network of face-selective areas along the inferior temporal lobe. However, where and how memory is re-activated during face perception …
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From representation to recognition : MEG studies of face perception
Face recognition is one of the most important problems our visual system must solve. Here I used magnetoencephalography (MEG) in an effort to characterize the sequence of cognitive and neural processes underlying this remarkable ability. This work is designed to answer several questions. First, how …
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Examining Face Perception with Self-Reports and Neural Measures: An SSVEP study
… the relationship between self-reported face recognition abilities, and behavioral and neural responses during face perception. Neural activity related to the processing of attended and unattended faces was recorded with electroencephalography (EEG) measurements using steady-state …
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Improving face perception and quality of life in age-related macular degeneration
The ability to see faces is essential for successful social interactions and good quality of life. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive eye condition that damages central vision required to see faces clearly. This thesis aims to investigate potential means to improve quality of …
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Improving face perception and quality of life in age-related macular degeneration
The ability to see faces is essential for successful social interactions and good quality of life. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive eye condition that damages central vision required to see faces clearly. This thesis aims to investigate potential means to improve quality of …
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On the insufficiency of laterality-based accounts of face perception and corresponding visual field asymmetries
… for nearly a century that the left half of a face is better recognized than the right half (Wolff, 1933). This left half-face advantage is commonly thought to reflect a combination of right hemisphere (RH) superiority for face recognition and a contralateral hemifield-hemisphere correspondence …
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Effect of the Muslim Headscarf on Face Perception. A series of psychological experiments looking at how the Muslim headscarf influences the perception of (South Asian) faces.
… the hair and other external features of a face. For this reason it may have implications for the recognition of such faces. The experiments reported in this thesis aimed to investigate anecdotal reports, which suggested that headscarf wearing females are more difficult to recognise. This …
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Face recognition ability in preterm or low gestational weight adults and children.
Face recognition impairments can present throughout life as a result of acquired or developmental influences. While existing evidence implicates genetics and early visual deprivation, little is known about how other early influences may impact the development of the face recognition system. Very …
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Visual perception and representation of objects and faces
Interpreting the results of visual object perception experiments is too often ill-posed due to the disparate and sparse choice of stimuli. To address this problem, we have developed a flexible new technique called Random Image Structure Evolution (RISE). In the simplest case, RISE involves the …
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Other-race faces : limitations of expert face recognition /
Adults' expert face recognition is limited to the kinds of faces they encounter on a daily basis (typically upright human faces of the same race). Adults process own-race faces holistically (Le., as a gestalt) and are exquisitely sensitive to small differences among faces in the spacing of …
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Asmeninės savybės politiko veide ir rinkėjų pasirinkimas /
Bachelor thesis “Personality traits in the face of politician and elector choice” aims to take a closer look at political psychology discipline. Tries to identify how important is the face perception of the politicians and how perception of the face can predict electoral success. Also, this …
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Network Dynamics of Visual Object Recognition
… distributed models of information flow during face perception via measurements of cortical activation, functional and structural connectivity, and transient disruption through electrical stimulation. We found that input from early visual cortex (EVC) to two face-selective regions – the …
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Recharacterising Face Recognition Deficits in Developmental Prosopagnosia.
… by a relatively selective deficit in face recognition. Current approaches to diagnose the condition vary within the field, making comparisons across studies difficult. Furthermore, theoretical inferences rely on accurate identification of people with DP and, combined with the fact that …
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Matching faces to expectations : the impact of political and business domain differences in gendered expectations on preferred appearance for leaders
… leaders. The findings of the studies add to the face perception literature and the gender bias literature that examines the impact of circumstances that make gender and professional roles discrepant in their impact on consequential outcomes, such as hiring and electoral outcomes.
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Visual Perception in Hearing Sign Language Users
Deaf signers exhibit superior visual perception compared to hearing controls in several domains, including the perception of faces and peripheral motion. These visual enhancements are thought to compensate for an absence of auditory input. However, it is also possible that they reflect experience …
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