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Bell, Raoul; Buchner, Axel; Kroneisen, Meike; Giang, Trang – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2012
A popular hypothesis in evolutionary psychology posits that reciprocal altruism is supported by a cognitive module that helps cooperative individuals to detect and remember cheaters. Consistent with this hypothesis, a source memory advantage for faces of cheaters (better memory for the cheating context in which these faces were encountered) was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Altruism, Cooperation, Cheating
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Greene, Michelle R.; Oliva, Aude – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Adaptation is ubiquitous in the human visual system, allowing recalibration to the statistical regularities of its input. Previous work has shown that global scene properties such as openness and mean depth are informative dimensions of natural scene variation useful for human and machine scene categorization (Greene & Oliva, 2009b; Oliva…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Recognition (Psychology), Adjustment (to Environment), Classification
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Scherf, K. Suzanne; Behrmann, Marlene; Minshew, Nancy; Luna, Beatriz – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Impaired face processing is a widely documented deficit in autism. Although the origin of this deficit is unclear, several groups have suggested that a lack of perceptual expertise is contributory. We investigated whether individuals with autism develop expertise in visuoperceptual processing of faces and whether any deficiency in such…
Descriptors: Autism, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Cognitive Processes, Nonverbal Communication