Perception of faces and bodies similar or different?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 219-223

  Slaughter, Virginia ^a,b   Stone, Valerie E ^b   Reed, Catherine ^c  

^a Early Cognitive Development Unit   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Body schema; Face perception; Object recognition; Social information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144264561     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2004.00312.x     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Downing, P., Jiang, Y., Shuman, M., & Kanwisher, N. (2001). A cortical area selective for visual processing of the human body. Science, 293, 23-26.
2. Gallese, V., & Goldman, A. (1998). Mirror neurons and the simulation theory of mind-reading. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 493-501.
3. Johnson, M.H., & Morton, J. (1991). Biology and cognitive development: The case of face recognition. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell.
4. Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. (1997). The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. The Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 4302-4311.
5. Ogden, J. (1985). Autotopagnosia: Occurrence in a patient with nominal aphasia and with an intact ability to point to parts of animals and objects. Brain, 108, 1009-1022.
6. O'Toole, A., Roark, D., & Abdi, H. (2002). Recognizing moving faces: A psychological and neural synthesis. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 261-266.
7. Reed, C.L., Stone, V.E., Bozova, S., & Tanaka, J. (2003). The body-inversion effect. Psychological Science, 14, 302-308.
8. Slaughter, V., Heron, M., & Sim, S. (2002). Development of preferences for the human body shape in infancy. Cognition, 85(3), B71-B81.
9. Tanaka, J., & Gauthier, I. (1997). Expertise in object and face recognition. In R. Goldstone, P. Schyns, & D. Medin (Eds.), Psychology of learning and motivation: Vol. 36. Perceptual mechanisms of learning (pp. 83-125). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
10. Turati, C., Simion, F., Milani, I., & Umilta, C. (2002). Newborns' preference for faces: What is crucial? Developmental Psychology, 38, 875-882.
11. Vaina, L., Solomon, J., Chowdhury, S., Sinha, P., & Belliveau, W. (2001). Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 98, 11656-11661.