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    2013

  • Biederman, I., Xu, X., & Shah, M. P. (2013). A neurocomputational basis for face configural effect. Talk presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL.

  • Xu, X., Shah, M. P., & Biederman, I. (2013). Coding of visual stimuli for size and animacy. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Amir, O., Biederman, I., Xu, X., & Wang, J. (2013). Neural correlates of mirth. Poster Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. [Poster]

    • 2012

  • Kim, J.G., & Biederman, I. (2012). Greater modulation of LO responses to changes in nonaccidental than metric relations between simple shapes. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2012). Face detection deficits in prosopagnosia assessed by eye-movements and detection thresholds. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Amir, O., Biederman, I., Xu, X. & Wang, Z. (2012). The Neural Basis for the Pleasure of Humor and Insight. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, New-Orleans, LA. [Poster]

  • Amir, O., Biederman, I. & Hayworth, K.J. (2012). The markedly greater sensitivity to nonaccidental vs. metric shape properties is not reflected in HMAX calculation of shape similarity. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster]

    • 2011

  • Kim, J.G., Biederman, I. & Juan, C.H. (2011). Where and when do objects become scenes? Talk presented at the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong, China.

  • Biederman, I., Kim, J.G., & Juan, C.H. (2011). The benefit of scene-like interactions on object identification arises in LO rather than being a consequence of parietal attentional modulation. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Kim, J.G., Biederman, I. & Amir, O. (2011). Greater sensitivity to categorical than metric differences in relations. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Xu, X., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2011) No recovery of function for a specific deficit in individuating faces 40 years after a lesion in the ventral occipito-temporal cortices at age five. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

  • Amir, O., Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2011). The spontaneous appeal by naïve subjects to nonaccidental properties when distinguishing among highly similar members of subspecies of birds closely resembles descriptions produced by experts. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster]

  • Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2011). The medial axis structures of novel objects are spontaneously perceived despite variability in the objects' orientations and component part shapes. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

    • 2010

  • Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). Voxels in LO distinguish objects with different arrangements of the same component parts. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  • Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). The coding of object interactions in the lateral occipital complex. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  • Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). Lateral occipital cortex represents axis structure. Poster presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting, Barcelona, Spain. [Poster]

  • Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). The Neural coding of relations between objects in scenes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. [Poster]

  • Hayworth, K.J., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2010). The neural representation of spatial relationships by anatomical binding. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). LO-but not V1-preferentially encodes axis structure. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). When do objects become scenes? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Abstract]

  • Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2010). Separate neural loci are sensitive to facial expression and facial individuation? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Amir, O., Wu, R., & Biederman, I. (2010). Adult shape preferences are evident in infancy. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

    • 2009

  • Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2009) Where do objects become scenes? Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Abstract]

  • Hayworth, K.J., Lescroart, M.D., Kim J.G., & Biederman, I. (2009). Evidence for object file encoding in the Poster Fusiform (pFs) and Intra-Parietal Sulcus (IPS). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Lescroart, M.D., Hayworth, K.J., & Biederman, I. (2009). Is there an object-centered map in LOC? Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Xu, X., Yue, X., Lescroart, M.D., Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2009). Adaptation in the Fusiform Face Area (FFA): Image or person? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Amir, O., Hayworth, K.J., Biederman, I., Lescroart, M., Kim, J.G. (2009). At what stage in the human ventral pathway is the greater sensitivity to nonaccidental over metric properties first aanifested? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster]

    • 2008

  • Biederman, I., Mangini, M.C., Yue, X., & Von der Malsburg, C. (2008). The neurocomputational basis of face recognition. Talk presented at the Meeting of the British Experimental Psychology Society, Liverpool, England.

  • Hayworth, K.J., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2008). Object Perception: Neural Mechanisms: Explicit relation coding in the Lateral Occipital Complex. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2008). Neural loci of interacting objects. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory, Chicago, IL. [Poster]

  • Kim, J.G., Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2008) The release from adaptation in LOC: An effect of shape or semantics? Presented at the Vision Sciences Society conference in Naples, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

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  • Lescroart, M.D., Hayworth, K.J., & Biederman, I. (2008). How translation invariant are object representations in the human posterior fusiform gyrus? Talk presented at the [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):83, 83a, doi:10.1167/8.6.83.

    • 2007

  • Yue, X., Subramaniam, S., Biederman, I. (2007). Predicting the psychophysical discriminability of faces and other complex stimuli based on measures of physical image similarity. Talk presented at the Society of Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

  • Yue, X., Lescroart, M.D., Vessel, E.A., & Biederman, I. (2007). A test of the consistency of scene preferences across cultures. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Kim, J. & Biederman, I. (2007). 17,000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth shapes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory, Long Beach, CA. [Poster]

  • Lescroart, M.D., Yue, X., Davidoff, J., & Biederman, I. (2007). A cross-cultural test of the independence of the representation of generalized-cone dimensions. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Poster] [Abstract]

  • Hayworth, H.J., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2007). Sensitivity to object-centered relations in LOC. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Hayworth, K.J., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2007). Some tests of the standard model. Presented at Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

    • 2006

  • Yue, X., Vessel, E.A., & Biederman, I. (2006). The neural basis of preference for natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 474. [Abstract]

  • Hayworth, K.J., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2006). A lateral occipital complex (LOC) localizer with precisely matched local feature composition in intact and scrambled images. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 621. [Abstract]

  • Lescroart, M.D., Yue, X., Hayworth, K.J., & Biederman, I. (2006). Laterality effects in the LOC. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 540. [Abstract]

  • Nederhouser, M., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2006). Predicting psychophysical similarity of complex shapes from measures of physical similarity. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 320. [Abstract]

    • 2005

  • Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I., Davidoff, J., Yue, X., Kayaert, G., Vogels, R. (2005). The representation of shape in individuals from a culture with limited contact with regular, simple artifacts. Journal of Vision, 5(8): 90, 90a. [Abstract]

  • Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2005). Differential fMRI activity produced by variations in parts and relations during object perception. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. [Abstract]

  • Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2005). FMRIa to complementary, contour-deleted images of objects. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. [Abstract]

  • Yue, X., Tjan, B., & Biederman, I. (2005). Matching complementary faces and blobs in the Gabor domain by novices, experts, and an ideal observer. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. [Abstract]

    • 2004

  • Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2004). Neural fMRI signatures for variation in parts and relations during object perception. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, CA.

  • Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2004). Spatial content of faces may be critical for individualizing faces. Poster presented at the 11th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, CA.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2004). Recognition of non face objects, designed to require the same stimulus processing as that for faces, show only minimal effects of differences in contrast polarity or orientation direction. Poster presented at the 11th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, CA.

  • Kayaert, G., Op de Beeck, H., Biederman, I., & Vogels, R. (2004). Shape-dependent coding of macaque IT neurons. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2004). Parts and relations are analyzable sources of shape variation: Evidence for structural descriptions. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl.

  • Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., & Cohen, M. (2004). Parahippocampal fMRI activity is modulated by scene type. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Wasserman, E. A., Lazareva, O., Gibson, B., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P., & Biederman, I. (2004). Geons and bubbles: Object recognition by pigeons. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Greene, M. R., Russell, R., & Biederman, I. (2004). The N170 adapts only to shape—not the pigmentation–of individual faces. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2004). The sensitivity of faces to spatial content may be partly based on the necessity to discriminate the metrics of smooth surfaces. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2004). Recognition of non face objects, designed to require the same stimulus processing as that for faces, show only minimal effects of differences in contrast polarity or orientation direction. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Russell, R., Sinha, P., Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I. (2004). The importance of pigmentation for face recognition. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Biederman, I., Kayaert, G., & Vogels, R. (2004). Systematic investigation of shape tuning in macaque IT. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Wasserman, E., Lazareva, O., Gibson, B., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P., & Biederman, I. (2004). Geons and Bubbles: Object recognition by pigeons. Journal of Vision ,4(8), 353a. [Abstract]

    • 2003

  • Biederman, I., Vogels, R., & Kayaert, G. (2003). Shape tuning in macaque inferior temporal cortex. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada.

  • Greene, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). The N170 adapts to individual, attended faces. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada.

  • Russell, R., Nederhouser, M., & Biederman, I. (2003). The roles of shape and surface in face processing. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). Sizeable costs incurred from contrast negation are unique to faces. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada.

  • Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., & Cohen, M. S. (2003) How opioid activity may determine spontaneous visual selection. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I, & Okada, K. (2003). Invariance to contrast inversion when matching objects with face-like surface structure and pigmentation. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Kayaert, G., Vogels, R., & Biederman, I. (2003). The effect of asymmetry and complexity on the sensitivity of inferior temporal neurons to nonaccidental differences. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

  • Behizdeh, R., Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2003). Verifying objects in minimal scenes. Journal of Vision, 3, 639a.

  • Biederman, I., Vessel, E. A., & Greene, M. (2003). The grouping of contours into an L-vertex depends on contrast polarity: Evidence for the incorporation of image statistics into mechanisms of perceptual grouping. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Greene, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). Trying your best to ignore a face does little to diminish the N170. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Yue, X., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). A psychophysical investigation of the other race effect in face recognition. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, FL.

    • 2002

  • Biederman, I., & Vessel, E. A. (2002). A neurocomputational theory of perceptual and cognitive pleasure. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City. MO.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I, & Okada, K. (2002). Matching face-like objects is invariant to differences in direction of contrast. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Kansas City, MO.

  • Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2002). An fMRI investigation of preference habituation. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2002). The matching of smooth blobby objects—but not faces—is invariant to differences in contrast polarity for both naïve and expert subjects. [Abstract]

  • Mangini, M., & Biederman, I. (2002). Prosopagnosics have lower internal noise? Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

  • Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Biederman, I. (2002). Object recognition in pigeons: The effects of spatial frequencies. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

  • Martin-Malivel, J., Mangini, M. C., Fagot, J., & Biederman, I. (2002). Using reverse correlation to infer the representation of human and baboon faces by humans and baboons. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

  • Biederman, I., & Mangini, M. C. (2002). The representations mediating face classifications. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

    • 2001

  • Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Using reverse correlation to infer the representations mediating facial judgments. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL.

  • Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Biederman, I. (2002). Object recognition in pigeons. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL.

  • Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2001). Why do we prefer looking at some scenes rather than others? Paper presented at OPAM conference, Orlando, Fl.

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). The matching of smooth, blobby objects--but not faces--is invariant to differences in contrast polarity for both naïve and expert subjects. [Abstract]

  • Mangini, M., Biederman, I., Malivel, J., and Fagot, J. (2001). Making the ineffable explicit: Investigating face judgments using reverse correlation. Paper presented at the Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, Orlando, FL.

  • Kayaert, G., Vogels, R., & Biederman, I. (2001). Sensitivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons to parametrically varied shape changes. Paper to be presented at the Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA.

  • Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Using reverse correlation to infer the representations distinguishing facial gender, affect, and individuals for normal observers and a prosopagnosic. Spotlight and poster presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Neural Computation. The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.

  • Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I., Mangini, M. S., & Vogels, R. (2001). Is object recognition invariant to direction of illumination and direction of contrast? Poster presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Neural Computation. The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA.

  • Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Differentiating expression, gender and identity in faces: Comparing normals, the ideal observer, and a prosopagnosic. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract].

  • Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., Lee, K. H., & Subramaniam, S. (2001). Contour grouping into L-vertices depends on contrast polarity: Evidence for the incorporation of image statistics into mechanisms of perceptual grouping. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Abstract]

  • Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (2001). Translation between S1 and S2 eliminates costs of changes in the direction of illumination. Journal of Vision. [Abstract]

  • Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and prosopagnosia. Paper presented at the VIIIth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition. Saint Malo, France.

  • Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and perception in prosopagnosia. Poster presented at the 8th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

    • 2000

  • Vogels, R., Biederman, I., Bar, M., & Lorincz, A. (2000). The representation of objects in inferior temporal cortex (IT). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, LA.

  • Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2000). Is information about gender and expression processed independently from information about identity when judging faces? Paper presented at the Object Perception and Memory Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX.

  • Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). Picture preference habituation of full color scenes. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory Annual Meeting. Dallas, TX.

  • Mangini, M. and Biederman, I. (2000). Human sensitivities to the information content in faces. Paper presented at the Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, New Orleans, LA.

  • Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I., Kosta, A. (2000). Is greater accuracy for gender than person discrimination of faces a consequence of class uncertainty? Evidence from normals and a prosopagnosic. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 225.

  • Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). Brightness judgments within minimal part types are easier than between part types. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 226.