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Psychology

D-Index
72
Citations
26264
World Ranking
2030
National Ranking
1181

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For seminal experiments on the role of visual expertise in the recognition of complex objects including faces and for exploration of brain areas activated by this recognition.

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Perception

Her main research concerns Cognitive psychology, Perception, Communication, Face perception and Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition. Her Cognitive psychology research includes elements of Face, Face, Fusiform gyrus and Fusiform face area. Her Perception research incorporates elements of Facial recognition system, Cognitive science, Neuropsychology and Information processing.

Her study in Communication is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Object, Artificial intelligence, Form perception, Scalp and Neuroscience. Her Face perception study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Context, Functional magnetic resonance imaging, Task and Asperger syndrome. The Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition study combines topics in areas such as Short-term memory and Brain activity and meditation.

Her most cited work include:

  • Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition (1110 citations)
  • Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. (1015 citations)
  • Abnormal ventral temporal cortical activity during face discrimination among individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome. (836 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Isabel Gauthier mainly focuses on Cognitive psychology, Perception, Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, Artificial intelligence and Communication. She has researched Cognitive psychology in several fields, including Social psychology, Face perception, Task, Cognition and Visual perception. Face perception is closely attributed to Face in her research.

She focuses mostly in the field of Perception, narrowing it down to topics relating to Categorization and, in certain cases, Concept learning. The various areas that she examines in her Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition study include Facial recognition system, Form perception, Mental rotation and Contrast. Her Communication research integrates issues from Stimulus and Object.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Cognitive psychology (54.44%)
  • Perception (38.22%)
  • Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition (25.48%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition (25.48%)
  • Cognitive psychology (54.44%)
  • Artificial intelligence (21.62%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary areas of investigation include Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, Cognitive psychology, Artificial intelligence, Facial recognition system and Perception. Her research investigates the link between Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition and topics such as Speech recognition that cross with problems in Bayesian statistics and Face identity. Her Cognitive psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Selective attention, Object, Face and Association.

Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Social psychology, Task and Visual learning. Her work focuses on many connections between Facial recognition system and other disciplines, such as Thick cortex, that overlap with her field of interest in Anatomy. Her Perception research includes themes of Cognitive science and Medical imaging.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • General object recognition is specific: Evidence from novel and familiar objects. (36 citations)
  • The Role of Experience in the Face-Selective Response in Right FFA. (16 citations)
  • Limited evidence of individual differences in holistic processing in different versions of the part-whole paradigm (11 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Cognition
  • Neuroscience

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition, Cognitive psychology, Face, Facial recognition system and Variance. The study incorporates disciplines such as Dissociation, Speech recognition, Selective attention and Face perception in addition to Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition. In most of her Cognitive psychology studies, her work intersects topics such as Association.

Her Face research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Memory test, Machine learning and Task. Her Facial recognition system research includes themes of Developmental psychology and Social psychology. The various areas that Isabel Gauthier examines in her Artificial intelligence study include Relevance, Experimental psychology and Perception.

Best Publications

  • Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition

    Isabel Gauthier;Pawel Skudlarski;John C. Gore;Adam W. Anderson

  • Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects.

    Isabel Gauthier;Michael J. Tarr;Adam W. Anderson;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Abnormal ventral temporal cortical activity during face discrimination among individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome.

    Robert T. Schultz;Isabel Gauthier;Ami Klin;Robert K. Fulbright

  • Becoming a “Greeble” Expert: Exploring Mechanisms for Face Recognition

    Isabel Gauthier;Michael J. Tarr

  • The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain

    Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier;Michael J Tarr;P Despland

  • The Fusiform Face Area is Part of a Network that Processes Faces at the Individual Level

    Isabel Gauthier;Michael J. Tarr;Jill Moylan;Pawel Skudlarski

  • FFA: a flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise

    Michael J. Tarr;Isabel Gauthier

  • Social interest and the development of cortical face specialization: what autism teaches us about face processing.

    David J. Grelotti;Isabel Gauthier;Robert T. Schultz

  • Training ‘greeble’ experts: a framework for studying expert object recognition processes

    Isabel Gauthier;Pepper Williams;Michael J. Tarr;James Tanaka

  • Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing

    Isabel Gauthier;Tim Curran;Kim M. Curby;Daniel Collins

  • How does the brain process upright and inverted faces

    Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier

  • Unraveling mechanisms for expert object recognition: bridging brain activity and behavior.

    Isabel Gauthier;Michael J. Tarr

  • Visual object understanding

    Thomas J. Palmeri;Isabel Gauthier

  • Can Face Recognition Really be Dissociated from Object Recognition

    Isabel Gauthier;Marlene Behrmann;Michael J. Tarr

  • Beyond faces and modularity: the power of an expertise framework

    Cindy M. Bukach;Isabel Gauthier;Michael J. Tarr

  • Expertise Training with Novel Objects Leads to Left-Lateralized Facelike Electrophysiological Responses

    Bruno Rossion;Bruno Rossion;Isabel Gauthier;Valérie Goffaux;Michael J Tarr

  • Holistic Processing Predicts Face Recognition

    Jennifer J. Richler;Olivia S. Cheung;Isabel Gauthier

  • The development of face expertise.

    Isabel Gauthier;Charles A Nelson

  • A meta-analysis and review of holistic face processing.

    Jennifer J. Richler;Isabel Gauthier

  • fMRI activation of the fusiform gyrus and amygdala to cartoon characters but not to faces in a boy with autism.

    David J. Grelotti;Ami J. Klin;Isabel Gauthier;Pawel Skudlarski

  • Levels of categorization in visual recognition studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Isabel Gauthier;Adam W Anderson;Michael J Tarr;Pawel Skudlarski

  • The fusiform "face area" is part of a network that processes faces at the individual level (vol 12, pg 499, 2000)

    I Gauthier;M J Tarr;J Moylan;P Skudlarski

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Palmeri
Thomas J. Palmeri Vanderbilt University
Michael J. Tarr
Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas W. James
Thomas W. James Indiana University
James W. Tanaka
James W. Tanaka University of Victoria
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Marlene Behrmann
Marlene Behrmann Carnegie Mellon University
Daniel N. Bub
Daniel N. Bub University of Victoria
Andrew J. Tomarken
Andrew J. Tomarken Vanderbilt University
Robert T. Schultz
Robert T. Schultz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Randolph Blake
Randolph Blake Vanderbilt University

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