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Overview

Galit Yovel is a researcher affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their work primarily focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and computer science, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision and pattern recognition. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, biomedical engineering, and developmental biology.

The core topics addressed by Yovel include:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Face recognition and analysis
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Yovel has published extensively in scientific venues, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Vision Research
  • Cognition

Their recent papers include:

  • "Face Recognition Depends on Specialized Mechanisms Tuned to View-Invariant Facial Features: Insights from Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Face or Object Recognition" (2021, Cognitive Science)
  • "Using deep neural networks to disentangle visual and semantic information in human perception and memory" (2024, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "The Functional Organization of High-Level Visual Cortex Determines the Representation of Complex Visual Stimuli" (2020, Journal of Neuroscience)
  • "Developmental prosopagnosics and super recognizers rely on the same facial features used by individuals with normal face recognition abilities for face identification" (2021, Neuropsychologia)
  • "Learning faces as concepts improves face recognition by engaging the social brain network" (2021, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience)

Yovel frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Adva Shoham, Idan Grosbard, Naphtali Abudarham, Libi Kliger, and Rotem Broday-Dvir. Collaborative works with these co-authors have contributed significantly to studies in face recognition mechanisms and neural underpinnings of visual cognition.

Best Publications

  • The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces.

    Nancy Kanwisher;Galit Yovel

  • Face Perception: Domain Specific, Not Process Specific

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • TMS Evidence for the Involvement of the Right Occipital Face Area in Early Face Processing

    David Pitcher;Vincent Walsh;Galit Yovel;Bradley Duchaine

  • The neural basis of the behavioral face-inversion effect.

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • A Revised Neural Framework for Face Processing

    Brad Duchaine;Galit Yovel

  • Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant–stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test

    Devin C. Bowles;Elinor McKone;Amy Dawel;Bradley Duchaine

  • Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing

    Elinor McKone;Galit Yovel

  • Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case

    Bradley C. Duchaine;Galit Yovel;Edward J. Butterworth;Ken Nakayama

  • The neural basis of the butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon: when a face seems familiar but is not remembered.

    Galit Yovel;Ken A Paller

  • The asymmetry of the fusiform face area is a stable individual characteristic that underlies the left-visual-field superiority for faces.

    Galit Yovel;Arielle Tambini;Talli Brandman

  • Event-related potential and functional MRI measures of face-selectivity are highly correlated: a simultaneous ERP-fMRI investigation.

    Boaz Sadeh;Ilana Podlipsky;Ilana Podlipsky;Andrey Zhdanov;Galit Yovel

  • Two neural pathways of face processing: A critical evaluation of current models.

    Michal Bernstein;Galit Yovel

  • Specialized Face Perception Mechanisms Extract Both Part and Spacing Information: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia

    Galit Yovel;Brad Duchaine

  • No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics

    Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel;Ken Nakayama

  • Face Processing Systems: From Neurons to Real-World Social Perception

    Winrich Freiwald;Bradley Duchaine;Galit Yovel

  • A unified coding strategy for processing faces and voices

    Galit Yovel;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin;Pascal Belin

  • Faces in the eye of the beholder: unique and stable eye scanning patterns of individual observers

    Eyal Mehoudar;Joseph Arizpe;Chris I. Baker;Galit Yovel

  • Recognizing People in Motion

    Galit Yovel;Alice J. O’Toole

  • The Effects of Sex, Menstrual Cycle, and Oral Contraceptives on the Number and Activity of Natural Killer Cells

    Galit Yovel;Keren Shakhar;Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu

  • In vivo correlation between axon diameter and conduction velocity in the human brain

    Assaf Horowitz;Daniel Barazany;Ido Tavor;Moran Bernstein

  • Hemispheric asymmetries for global and local visual perception: effects of stimulus and task factors.

    Galit Yovel;Iftah Yovel;Jerre Levy

  • Report The Neural Basis of the Behavioral Face-Inversion Effect

    Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

  • Separate face and body selectivity on the fusiform gyrus

    Rebecca Schwarzlose;Chris I. Baker;Galit Yovel;Nancy Kanwisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradley Duchaine
Bradley Duchaine Dartmouth College
Chris I. Baker
Chris I. Baker National Institutes of Health
Elinor McKone
Elinor McKone Australian National University
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London
Talma Hendler
Talma Hendler Tel Aviv University
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope New York University
Pascal Belin
Pascal Belin Aix-Marseille University
Pamela D. Butler
Pamela D. Butler Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Ken A. Paller
Ken A. Paller Northwestern University

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