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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Philippe G. Schyns is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their main research focus is in the field of Neuroscience, with particular attention to Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. The scientist's work also intersects Social Psychology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers several core topics, including:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Philippe G. Schyns has published extensively, contributing to journals such as the Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Current Biology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and eLife. Among their recent papers are:

  • "Bayesian inference of population prevalence," 2021, eLife
  • "Within-participant statistics for cognitive science," 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Modeling individual preferences reveals that face beauty is not universally perceived across cultures," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Facial expressions elicit multiplexed perceptions of emotion categories and dimensions," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Degrees of algorithmic equivalence between the brain and its DNN models," 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Robin A. A. Ince
  • Oliver Garrod
  • Rachael E. Jack
  • Jiayu Zhan
  • Yuening Yan

The research contributions of Philippe G. Schyns have been recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.

Best Publications

  • A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damage

    Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Frederic Gosselin;Tony W. Buchanan;Daniel Tranel

  • Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal

    Rachael E. Jack;Oliver G. B. Garrod;Hui Yu;Roberto Caldara

  • Bubbles: a technique to reveal the use of information in recognition tasks

    Frédéric Gosselin;Philippe G. Schyns

  • From Blobs to Boundary Edges: Evidence for Time- and Spatial-Scale-Dependent Scene Recognition

    Philippe G. Schyns;Philippe G. Schyns;Aude Oliva

  • The development of features in object concepts

    Philippe G. Schyns;Robert L. Goldstone;Jean-Pierre Thibaut

  • Transmitting and Decoding Facial Expressions

    Marie L. Smith;Garrison W. Cottrell;FrédéAric Gosselin;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal.

    Rachael E. Jack;Caroline Blais;Christoph Scheepers;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Speech rhythms and multiplexed oscillatory sensory coding in the human brain.

    Joachim Gross;Nienke Hoogenboom;Gregor Thut;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Dynamic Facial Expressions of Emotion Transmit an Evolving Hierarchy of Signals over Time

    Rachael E. Jack;Oliver G.B. Garrod;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Entrainment of perceptually relevant brain oscillations by non‑invasive rhythmic stimulation of the human brain

    Gregor Thut;Philippe G. Schyns;Joachim Gross

  • Rhythmic TMS Causes Local Entrainment of Natural Oscillatory Signatures

    Gregor Thut;Domenica Veniero;Vincenzo Romei;Vincenzo Romei;Carlo Miniussi

  • Show Me the Features! Understanding Recognition From the Use of Visual Information

    Philippe G. Schyns;Lizann Bonnar;Frédéric Gosselin

  • Dr. Angry and Mr. Smile: when categorization flexibly modifies the perception of faces in rapid visual presentations.

    Philippe G Schyns;Aude Oliva

  • Coarse Blobs or Fine Edges? Evidence That Information Diagnosticity Changes the Perception of Complex Visual Stimuli

    Aude Oliva;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Diagnostic Colors Mediate Scene Recognition

    Aude Oliva;Philippe G. Schyns

  • The Human Face as a Dynamic Tool for Social Communication

    Rachael E. Jack;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Frontal Top-Down Signals Increase Coupling of Auditory Low-Frequency Oscillations to Continuous Speech in Human Listeners

    Hyojin Park;Robin A.A. Ince;Philippe G. Schyns;Gregor Thut

  • A statistical framework for neuroimaging data analysis based on mutual information estimated via a gaussian copula

    Robin A.A. Ince;Bruno L. Giordano;Christoph Kayser;Guillaume A. Rousselet

  • Internal representations reveal cultural diversity in expectations of facial expressions of emotion.

    Rachael E. Jack;Roberto Caldara;Philippe G. Schyns

  • Categorization creates functional features

    Philippe G. Schyns;Luc Rodet

  • Bubbles: A Technique to Reveal the Use of Information in Recognition Tasks EOA Report

    P. Schyns

Frequent Co-Authors

Frédéric Gosselin
Frédéric Gosselin University of Montreal
Guillaume A. Rousselet
Guillaume A. Rousselet University of Glasgow
Joachim Gross
Joachim Gross University of Münster
Roberto Caldara
Roberto Caldara University of Fribourg
Stefano Panzeri
Stefano Panzeri University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Gregor Thut
Gregor Thut Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine
Vincenzo Romei
Vincenzo Romei University of Bologna
Hui Yu
Hui Yu University of Portsmouth

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