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What does visual agnosia tell us about perceptual organization and its relationship to object perception?Marlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 29:19-42. 2003..g., collinearity). Other processes are more complex and rely on higher order visual areas (e.g., closure and shape formation). The failure to exploit these latter configural processes adversely affects object recognition...- Parietal cortex and attentionMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 14:212-7. 2004..Recent neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have provided a more fine-grained understanding of the relationship between brain and behavior in the domain of selective attention... - Congenital prosopagnosia: face-blind from birthMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213 3890, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 9:180-7. 2005.... - Behavioral change and its neural correlates in visual agnosia after expertise trainingMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:554-68. 2005..The findings indicate potential for experience-dependent dynamic reorganization in agnosia with the possibility that residual neural tissue, with limited capacity, will compete for representations... - Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processingMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:110-29. 2006..Taken together, the results suggest that the bias for local processing seen in autistic individuals might have an adverse impact on their ability to process faces and objects... - Detailed exploration of face-related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral findingsMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1130-49. 2005..These findings elucidate the psychological mechanisms underlying CP and support the link between configural and face processing... - Top-down and bottom-up attentional guidance: investigating the role of the dorsal and ventral parietal corticesSarah Shomstein
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Exp Brain Res 206:197-208. 2010.... - Cortical patterns of category-selective activation for faces, places and objects in adults with autismKate Humphreys
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Autism Res 1:52-63. 2008.... - "What" precedes "which": developmental neural tuning in face- and place-related cortexK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Cereb Cortex 21:1963-80. 2011..These results indicate that category-level neural tuning develops prior to individual-level neural tuning and that face-related cortex is disproportionately slower in this developmental transition than is place-related cortex... - Emergence of global shape processing continues through adolescenceK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Child Dev 80:162-77. 2009..These results indicate that the full process of garnering shape information from perceptual grouping, which is essential for the ability to do fast and efficient object recognition and identification, develops late into adolescence... - Impairments in part-whole representations of objects in two cases of integrative visual agnosiaMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Cogn Neuropsychol 24:701-30. 2007..It is this integrative process that is impaired in IA and appears to play a critical role in the normal object recognition of complex images... - Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosiaCibu Thomas
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:29-31. 2009..Our findings suggest that white-matter fibers in ventral occipito-temporal cortex support the integrated function of a distributed cortical network that subserves normal face processing... - Cortical systems mediating visual attention to both objects and spatial locationsSarah Shomstein
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11387-92. 2006..The dynamic circuit between the PPC and earlier sensory regions then enables observers to attend preferentially to objects of interest in complex scenes... - Missing the big picture: impaired development of global shape processing in autismK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Autism Res 1:114-29. 2008.... - A fine-grained analysis of facial expression processing in high-functioning adults with autismKate Humphreys
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:685-95. 2007..A second experiment demonstrated that individuals with autism are able to discriminate between different emotional images and suggests that low-level perceptual difficulties do not underlie the difficulties with emotion recognition... - Reduction in white matter connectivity, revealed by diffusion tensor imaging, may account for age-related changes in face perceptionCibu Thomas
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:268-84. 2008.... - Probing the face-space of individuals with prosopagnosiaMayu Nishimura
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:1828-41. 2010.... - Visuotopic cortical connectivity underlying attention revealed with white-matter tractographyAdam S Greenberg
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
J Neurosci 32:2773-82. 2012..These results provide critical evidence for the biased competition theory of attention and specify neurobiological constraints on the functional brain organization of visual attention... - Detailed exploration of face-related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 2. Functional neuroimaging findingsGalia Avidan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1150-67. 2005.... - Hemispatial neglect and visual search: a large scale analysisMarlene Behrmann
Dept of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Cortex 40:247-63. 2004..The findings not only clarify the contradictory neuropsychological data but also provide clear evidence for the involvement of attentional processing in all forms of visual search... - Are Greebles like faces? Using the neuropsychological exception to test the ruleIsabel Gauthier
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, 301 Wilson Hall, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Neuropsychologia 42:1961-70. 2004..These results suggest that insofar as CK is relying on face-specific visual processes, these processes do not a priori treat Greebles as faces... - Visual category-selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectoriesK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, 3811 O Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Dev Sci 10:F15-30. 2007.... - Atypical development of face and greeble recognition in autismK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:838-47. 2008..We investigated whether individuals with autism develop expertise in visuoperceptual processing of faces and whether any deficiency in such processing is specific to faces, or extends to other objects, too... - A detailed investigation of facial expression processing in congenital prosopagnosia as compared to acquired prosopagnosiaKate Humphreys
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Exp Brain Res 176:356-73. 2007..Whether this remarkably good expression recognition is achieved through normal, or compensatory, mechanisms remains to be determined. Either way, this normal level of performance does not extend to include facial identity... - The anatomy of the callosal and visual-association pathways in high-functioning autism: a DTI tractography studyCibu Thomas
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, PA 15213, USA
Cortex 47:863-73. 2011..These findings suggest that the abnormalities in the integrity of key inter- and intra-hemispheric WM tracts may underlie the atypical information processing observed in these individuals... - Probability cuing of target location facilitates visual search implicitly in normal participants and patients with hemispatial neglectJoy J Geng
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Psychol Sci 13:520-5. 2002..An early sensory and a late motor mechanism are postulated as possibly being involved in the observed probability-matching behavior of participants... - Spatial probability as an attentional cue in visual searchJoy J Geng
Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Percept Psychophys 67:1252-68. 2005.... - Acquiring long-term representations of visual classes following extensive extrastriate damageOrna Rosenthal
UCLA, Department of Psychology, 7531 Franz Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:799-815. 2006..These findings demonstrate that degraded output from lesioned, lower areas can be exploited in the service of a new visual task and the results likely implicate a combination of bottom-up and top-down processing during visual learning... - Asymmetrical perception of body rotation after unilateral injury to human vestibular cortexJohn W Philbeck
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, 2125 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Neuropsychologia 44:1878-90. 2006..In this view, right hemisphere structures play a dominant role, processing rotations in both directions, while left hemisphere structures process rotations only toward the contralesional hemispace... - Right parietal contributions to verbal working memory: spatial or executive?Susan M Ravizza
Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Neuropsychologia 43:2057-67. 2005..With central stimulus presentation, his performance dramatically improved indicating that his difficulty with the N-back task was largely due to his poor visuospatial abilities... - Seeing it differently: visual processing in autismMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 3890, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 10:258-64. 2006..The available evidence suggests that perceptual alterations are present in ASD, independent of social function... - Structural imaging reveals anatomical alterations in inferotemporal cortex in congenital prosopagnosiaMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Cereb Cortex 17:2354-63. 2007..These findings implicate a specific cortical structure as the neural basis of CP and, in light of the familial history of CP, target the aF gyrus as a potential site for further, focused genetic investigation... - Independent representation of parts and the relations between them: evidence from integrative agnosiaMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 32:1169-84. 2006.... - The space of an object: object attention alters the spatial gradient in the surroundDwight Jacob Kravitz
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 34:298-309. 2008..Object-based attention leads to a pattern of facilitation in the surround that may contribute to the organization of visual scenes... - Path integration deficits during linear locomotion after human medial temporal lobectomyJohn W Philbeck
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:510-20. 2004..This information is relevant for future research investigating the neural substrates of navigation, not only in humans (e.g., functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies), but also in rodents and other animals... - Object-based attention: strength of object representation and attentional guidanceSarah Shomstein
Department of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
Percept Psychophys 70:132-44. 2008.... - Unraveling the distributed neural code of facial identity through spatiotemporal pattern analysisAdrian Nestor
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:9998-10003. 2011..More generally, in the context of functionally defined networks, they provide an account of distributed processing grounded in information-based architectures... - Spatial and temporal influences on extinctionAnthony Cate
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Neuropsychologia 40:2206-25. 2002..These findings support the hypothesis that the attentional deficit in extinction patients arises from a contralesional-to-ipsilesional gradient of cell populations that interact in a mutually inhibitory manner... - Complementary neural representations for faces and words: a computational explorationDavid C Plaut
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Cogn Neuropsychol 28:251-75. 2011..We set out a series of empirical predictions, which are also examined, and consider the further implications of this account... - Mechanisms underlying spatial representation revealed through studies of hemispatial neglectMarlene Behrmann
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:272-90. 2002..The findings dovetail well with results from existing neurophysiological studies and shed further light on the spatial representations mediated by the human parietal cortex... - Location, Location, Location: Alterations in the Functional Topography of Face- but not Object- or Place-Related Cortex in Adolescents with AutismK Suzanne Scherf
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 4:26. 2010.... - Expertise in tactile pattern recognitionMarlene Behrmann
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 3890, USA
Psychol Sci 14:480-6. 2003..Tactile expertise is not obviously attributable to visual mediation and emerges from domain-general principles that operate independently of modality... - Recovery of signal loss due to an in-plane susceptibility gradient in the gradient echo EPI through acquisition of extended phase-encoding linesKwan Jin Jung
Brain Imaging Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA
Magn Reson Imaging 28:777-83. 2010..Therefore, scan time is increased only for the extended phase-encoding lines posterior to the regular phase-encoding range. This technique has been confirmed experimentally by imaging human subject's heads at 3T... - Impact of learning on representation of parts and wholes in monkey inferotemporal cortexChris I Baker
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, 115 Mellon Institute, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Nat Neurosci 5:1210-6. 2002..These results indicate a possible neural mechanism for holistic or configural effects in expert versus novice observers... - Unreliable evoked responses in autismILAN DINSTEIN
Department of Psychology, Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA Electronic address
Neuron 75:981-91. 2012..The results motivate a critical expansion of autism research to determine whether (and how) basic neural processing properties such as reliability, plasticity, and adaptation/habituation are altered in autism... - Facing changes and changing faces in adolescence: a new model for investigating adolescent-specific interactions between pubertal, brain and behavioral developmentK Suzanne Scherf
Department of Psychology and Social Sciences Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, 111 Moore Bldg, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Dev Cogn Neurosci 2:199-219. 2012.... - Microgenesis and ontogenesis of perceptual organization: evidence from global and local processing of hierarchical patternsRuth Kimchi
Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Psychol Sci 16:282-90. 2005..These findings support the view that perceptual organization involves multiple processes that vary in time course, attentional demands, and developmental trajectories... - Correlations between the fMRI BOLD signal and visual perceptionGalia Avidan
The Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation and Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, P.O. Box 1255, 91904, Israel
Neuron 34:495-7. 2002..These findings are provocative and suggest that neural hysteresis is mediated by visual structures that interact with higher-order regions to support longer-term maintenance of a percept... - A mirror up to natureILAN DINSTEIN
Center for Neural Science, New York University, 4 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA
Curr Biol 18:R13-8. 2008 - Competition between simultaneous stimuli modulated by location probability in hemispatial neglectJoy J Geng
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
Neuropsychologia 44:1050-60. 2006..These data underscore the competitive push-pull relationship between different bottom-up and top-down attentional factors, particularly within neglect patients, in whom a strong ipsilesional attentional bias already exists... - Eccentricity bias as an organizing principle for human high-order object areasUri Hasson
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Neuron 34:479-90. 2002..The results are compatible with the notion that center-periphery organization allows the optimal allocation of cortical magnification to the specific requirements of various recognition processes... - Role of attention and perceptual grouping in visual statistical learningChris I Baker
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Mellon Institute, USA
Psychol Sci 15:460-6. 2004..It can be modulated by both attention and connectedness, and in natural scenes these factors may constrain the role of stimulus statistics in learning...