Perceptual Expertise/Face Recognition

Gauthier, I. (2000). What constrains the organization of ventral temporal cortex? TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 4 (1), 1-2.

Commentary on target article: Ishai, Ungerleider, Martin, Schouten, & Haxby, Distributed representation of objects in the human ventral st...

Gauthier, I., Anderson, A. W., Tarr, M. J., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (1997). Levels of categorization in visual recognition studied with functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Current Biology, 7(9), 645-651.

 

Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M., & Tarr, M. J. (1999). Can face recognition really be dissociated from object recognition? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(4), 349-370.

 

Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M., & Tarr, M. J. (2004). Are Greebles like faces? Using the neuropsychological exception to test the rule. Neuropsychologia, 42(14), 1961-1970.

 

Gauthier, I. & Logothetis, N. (2000). Is face recognition not so unique after all? Journal of Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17(1/2/3), 125-142.

 

Gauthier, I., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., & Anderson, A. W. (2000). Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 3(2), 191-197.

 

Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1997). Becoming a "Greeble" expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Vision Research, 37(12), 1673-1682.

 

Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (2002). Unraveling mechanisms for expert object recognition: Bridging brain activity and behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(2), 431-446.

 

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (1999). Activation of the middle fusiform "face area" increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. Nature Neuroscience, 2(6), 568-573.

 

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (2000). Does visual subordinate-level categorization engage the functionally-defined fusiform face area? Cognitive Neuropsychology, Special Issue on Face Recognition, (N

 

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (2000). The fusiform "face area" is part of a network that processes faces at the individual level. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(3), 495-504.

 

Gauthier, I., Williams, P., Tarr, M. J., & Tanaka, J. (1998). Training "Greeble" experts: A framework for studying expert object recognition processes. Vision Research, Special issue on "Models of Recognition", 38, 2401-2428.

 

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Despland, P., Bruyer, R, Linotte, S., & Crommelinck, M. (2000). The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: An electrophysiological account of face-spe

 

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Goffaux, V., Tarr, M. J., & Crommelinck, M. (2002). Expertise training with novel objects leads to left-lateralized face-like electrophysiological responses. Psychological Science, 13(3), 250-257.

 

Rossion, B., Kung, C-C., & Tarr, M. J. (2004). Visual expertise with nonface objects leads to competition with the early perceptual processing of faces in the human occipito-temporal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101(40), 14521-

 

Schultz, R. T., I. Gauthier, et al. (2000). Abnormal ventral temporal cortical activity during face discrimination among individuals with autism and asperger syndrome. Arch. Gen. Psychiatry, 57 (April), 331-340.

 

Tarr, M. J., & Cheng, Y. D. (2003). Learning to see faces and objects. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences, 7(1), 23-30.

 

Tarr, M. J., & Gauthier, I. (2000). FFA: A Flexible Fusiform Area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise. Nature Neuroscience, 3(8), 764-769.

Counterpoint commentary: Kanwisher, N. (2000), Domain specificity in face perception.

Williams, P., Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1998). Feature learning during the acquisition of perceptual expertise. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21 (1), 40-41.

Commentary on Schyns, Goldstone & Thibault [The development of features in object concepts].