Parts and Wholes in Face Recognition
The hypothesis that face recognition is holistic predicts that a part of a face will be disproportionately more easily recognized in the whole face than as an isolated part, relative to recognition of the parts and wholes of other kinds of stimuli.
Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: a reevaluation.
- S. Thompson-Schill, M. D’Esposito, G. Aguirre, M. Farah
- Psychology, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 23 December 1997
The findings suggest that it is selection, not retrieval, of semantic knowledge that drives activity in the left IFG, and counters the argument that the effects of selection can be attributed solely to variations in degree of semantic retrieval.
What is "special" about face perception?
The authors review and compare previous proposals and their own more recent hypothesis, that faces are recognized "holistically" (i.e., using relatively less part decomposition than other types of objects), and test this hypothesis with 4 new experiments on face perception.
Different underlying impairments in decision-making following ventromedial and dorsolateral frontal lobe damage in humans.
- L. Fellows, M. Farah
- Psychology, BiologyCerebral Cortex
- 24 June 2004
It is found that both VMF and DLF damage leads to impaired IGT performance, and the impairment of VMF subjects, but not of DLF Subjects, seems to be largely explained by an underlying reversal learning deficit.
Towards responsible use of cognitive-enhancing drugs by the healthy
- H. Greely, B. Sahakian, M. Farah
- PsychologyNature
- 10 December 2008
Society must respond to the growing demand for cognitive enhancement by rejecting the idea that 'enhancement' is a dirty word, argue Henry Greely and colleagues.
Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision
- M. Farah
- Psychology, Biology
- 19 July 1990
"Visual Agnosia" reviews a century of case studies of higher-level visual deficits following brain damage, places them in the general context of current neuroscience, and draws relevant conclusions about the organization of normal visual processing.
Neurocognitive correlates of socioeconomic status in kindergarten children.
- Kimberly G. Noble, M. Norman, M. Farah
- PsychologyDevelopmental Science
- 2005
Relations among language, executive function, SES and specific aspects of early childhood experience were explored, revealing intercorrelations and a seemingly predominant role of individual differences in language ability involved in SES associations with executive function.
A computational model of semantic memory impairment: modality specificity and emergent category specificity.
- M. Farah, James L. McClelland
- Psychology, BiologyJournal of experimental psychology. General
- 1 September 1991
It is demonstrated how a modality-specific semantic memory system can account for category-specific impairments after brain damage and accounts naturally for a finding that had appeared problematic for a modalities-specific architecture.
Concept development.
- M. Farah, S. Kosslyn
- MedicineAdvances in Child Development and Behavior
- 1982
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