James W. Tanaka

TL;DR: It is suggested that the broader autism phenotype is associated with lower face recognition abilities, even among typically developing individuals.

TL;DR: In this research, typicality effects were extended to the perception of nonface objects and it was found that 50/50 morphs of birds and cars were judged to be more similar to their atypical parents than to their typical parents.

TL;DR: These results complement previously published evidence that the patient PS presents a lack of sensitivity to diagnostic information located on the eyes of familiar faces during individual face recognition tasks and indicate that the impaired processing of the Eyes of faces is a fundamental aspect of acquired prosopagnosia that can arise following damage to different brain localizations.

TL;DR: By increasing the signal-to-noise ratio in the measured waveforms, the channel pool method demonstrated an enhanced sensitivity to the neurophysiological response to own-face relative to other faces.

TL;DR: The "fastest means first" hypothesis that levels of abstraction that are categorized fastest are processed first in perceptual categorization is tested by contrasting the time course of basic- and subordinate-level categorization of objects in a signal-to-respond experiment.