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A Method to Quantify Visual Information Processing in Children Using Eye Tracking
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2016
A method is described to quantify the quality of visual information processing based on reflexive eye movements in response to specific visual modalities. Reaction times and fixation output parameters are used to characterize visual performance in children with and without visual impairments from 6 months of age.
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Methods to Explore the Influence of Top-down Visual Processes on Motor Behavior
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2014
It is unclear how top-down signals from the ventral visual stream affect movement. We developed a paradigm to test motor behavior towards a target on a 3D depth inversion illusion. Significant differences are reported in both deliberate, goal-directed movements and automatic actions under illusory and veridical viewing conditions.
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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
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2011
This paper illustrates an innovative visual approach (photovoice or photo-elicitation) to achieve fair process in clinical care for patients living with chronic health conditions, illuminate gaps in clinical knowledge, forge better therapeutic relationships, and identify patient-centered goals and possibilities for healing.
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In Situ Visualization of the Phase Behavior of Oil Samples Under Refinery Process Conditions
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2017
This article describes a setup and method for the in situ visualization of oil samples under a variety of temperature and pressure conditions that aim to emulate refining and upgrading processes. It is primarily used for studying isotropic and anisotropic media involved in the fouling behavior of petroleum feeds.
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Interaction between Phonological and Semantic Processes in Visual Word Recognition using Electrophysiology
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2021
We present a protocol to explore the relative activation sequence of phonology and semantics in visual word recognition. The results show that consistent with interactive accounts, semantic and phonological representations may be processed interactively, and higher-level linguistic representations may affect early processing.
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Facial analysis depends not only on individual features but also on the spatial relationships among them. This relational information helps the visual system organize a face as a coordinated pattern, supporting judgments about identity and other socially relevant properties. In behavioral research, examining these relationships can reveal how perceptual structure contributes to recognition and interpretation.
The fusiform face area is a specialized cortical region associated with face-related analysis. Including this region in models of visual face processing connects perceptual operations with brain systems that support face recognition and interpretation. Behavioral findings can be considered alongside this neural specialization to explain how visual analysis contributes to social cognition and communication.
Visual face processing integrates several types of information rather than treating every face encounter as an identity judgment. Identity concerns who is present, while expression, gaze, and age provide additional information relevant to interpreting social situations. Behavioral studies can examine these dimensions separately or together to determine how facial cues influence attention, memory, and social judgment.
Common research tasks ask participants to recognize faces, identify emotional expressions, or judge where someone is looking. Each task emphasizes a different aspect of face-related behavior: recognition addresses identity, emotion identification examines interpretation of expression, and gaze perception examines attention to another person's visual orientation. Together, these tasks provide complementary evidence about perceptual and cognitive mechanisms.
Performance across recognition, emotion-identification, and gaze-perception tasks can expose differences in how people attend to, remember, and interpret faces. Researchers may compare patterns across tasks rather than relying on a single result, linking face perception with broader abilities in social judgment and communication. This approach helps behavioral science characterize variation in cognition and social behavior.
Atypical face perception provides an important context for testing models of normal face-related cognition. Prosopagnosia and autism are specifically relevant because they can involve differences in how faces are perceived or interpreted. Comparing behavioral patterns in these conditions with typical performance can clarify which mechanisms support recognition, social information processing, and communication.
Findings from human face perception contribute to models of computer vision by identifying the kinds of information people use when analyzing faces. Feature relationships, identity, expression, gaze, and age offer behaviorally relevant targets for such models. Comparing computational systems with human performance can help connect artificial analysis to established principles of perception and cognition.