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Wong, C.-N., Gauthier, I., Woroch, B., DeBuse, C. & Curran, T. (in press) An early electrophysiological response associated with expertise in letter perception. Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience.

Gauthier, I., Curby, K.M. & Epstein, R. (in press). Activity of spatial frequency channels in the fusiform face-selective area relates to expertise in car recognition. Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience.

James, K. H., James, T. W., Jobard, G. Wong, C.-N. & Gauthier, I. (in press). Letter processing in the visual system: different activation patterns for single letters and strings. Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience.

James, T.W. & Gauthier, I. (in press). Priming-induced enhancement of hemodynamic response reflects accumulation of neural activity. Human Brain Mapping.

Bukach, C. M., Bub, D. N., Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. (in press). Perceptual expertise effects are not all or none: local perceptual expertise for faces in a case of prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Behrmann, M., Marrota, J., Gauthier, I., Tarr, M.J. & McKeef, T. J. (2005). Behavioral change and its neural correlates in visual agnosia after expertise training. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(4): 554-68.

Grelotti, D.J., Klin, A. J., Gauthier, I., Skudlarski, P., Cohen, D.J., Gore, J.C., Volkmar, F. R., & Schultz, R.T. (2005). FMRI activation of the fusiform gyrus and amygdala to cartoon characters but not faces in a boy with autism. Neuropsychologia, 43(3): 373-85.

Palmeri, T. J., Wong, A. C.-N., Gauthier, I. (2004). Computational approaches to the development of perceptual expertise, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8: 378-86.

Gauthier, I. & Curby, K.M., (In press). A Perceptual Traffic-Jam on Highway N170: Interference between face and car expertise. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 4(1): 30-33.

Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M. & Tarr, M. J. (2004). Are Greebles like faces? Using the neuropsychological exception to test the rule. Neuropsychologia, 42(14): 1961-70.

Palmeri, T. J., Gauthier, I. Visual Object Understanding. (2004). Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 291-303.

Curby, K.M., Hayward, W. G. & Gauthier, I. (2004). Laterality effects in the Recognition of Depth Rotated Novel Objects. In press, Cognitive and Affective Behavioral Neuroscience.

James, T. W. & Gauthier, I. (2004).Brain areas engaged during visual judgments by involuntary access to semantic information. Vision Research, 44(5): 429-39.

James, T. W. & Gauthier, I. (2003). Auditory and action semantic feature types activate sensory-specific perceptual brain regions. Current Biology, 13(20): 1792-6.

Gauthier, I., Curran, T., Curby, K.M. & Collins. D. (2003). Perceptual interference supports a non-modular account of face processing. Nature Neuroscience, 6:428-32.

Goffaux, V., Gauthier, I., & Rossion, B. (2003). Spatial Scale contribution to early visual differences between face and object processing. Cognitive Brain Research, 16:416-24.

Gauthier, I., James, T. W., Curby, K. M. & Tarr, M.J. (2003). The influence of conceptual knowledge on visual discrimination. Cognitive Neuropsychology, in press.

Gauthier, I., Hayward, W. G., Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P. & Gore, J. C. (2002). BOLD activity during mental rotation and viewpoint-dependent object recognition. Neuron, 34: 161-171.

Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T. J. (2002). Visual Neurons: Categorization-Based Selectivity. Current Biology. 12, R282-284.
 
Gauthier, I., & Tarr., M. J. (2002). Unraveling mechanisms for expert object recognition: Bridging Brain Activity and Behavior, JEP:HPP, 28(2): 431-446.

Grelotti, D., Gauthier, I., Schultz, R. T. (2002). Social interest and the development of cortical face specialization: what autism teaches us about face processing. Developmental Psychobiology, 40(30): 13-25.

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I. (2002). How does the brain process upright and inverted faces? Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews. 1(1): 63-75.

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I, Goffaux, V., Tarr, M.J., Crommelinck, M. (2002). Expertise training with novel objects leads to left lateralized face-like electrophysiological responses. Psychological Science. 13(3): 250-257.

Rossion, B., Curran, T., Gauthier, I. (2002). A defense of the subordinate level-expertise account for the N170 component. Cognition. 85(2): 189-196.

Gauthier, I. & Nelson, C. (2001). The development of face expertise. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 11:219-224.

Gauthier, I. (2000). What constrains the organization of ventral temporal cortex? [Commentary on Ishai, Ungerleider, Martin, Schouten, & Haxby, Distributed representation of objects in the human ventral visual pathway. PNAS, 96: 9379-9384, 1999.] Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(1): 1-2.

Gauthier, I. (2000). Visual Priming: The ups and down of familiarity. [Commentary on James, Humphrey, Gati, Menon & Goodale, The effects of visual object priming on brain activation before and after recognition. Curr Biol. 2000 Sep 7;10(17):1017-24] Curr Biol. 10(5): 1019-23.

Gauthier, I. & Logothetis, N. (2000). Is face recognition not so unique after all? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17(1/2/3), 125-142.
 
Gauthier, I., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J.C., & Anderson, A.W. (2000). Expertise for cars and birds recruits brain areas involved in face recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 3(2): 191-197.

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., & Anderson, A.W. (2000).The fusiform "face area" is part of a network that processes faces at the individual level. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(3): 495-504.

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (2000). Does subordinate-level categorization engage the functionally-defined face area? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17(1/2/3), 143-163.

Rossion, B., Gauthier, I. , Tarr, M.J., Despland, P. , Bruyer, R, Linotte, S., Crommelinck, M. (2000). The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects: an electrophysiological account of face-specific processes in the human brain. NeuroReport.11(1): 69-74.

Schultz, R.T., Gauthier, I., Klin, A., Fulbright, R.K., Anderson, A.W., Volkmar, F., Skudlarski, P., Lacadie, C., Cohen, D.J., & Gore, J.C. (2000). Abnormal ventral temporal cortical activity during face discrimination among individuals with autism and Asperger syndrome. Archives of General Psychiatry, 37: 331-340.

Tarr, M. J., & Gauthier, I. (2000). FFA: A flexible fusiform area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise. Nature Neuroscience, 3(8): 764769.

Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M., & Tarr, M. J. (1999). Can face recognition really be dissociated from object recognition? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 349-370.

Gauthier, I., Tarr, M.J., Anderson A.W., Skudlarski, P. & Gore, J. C. (1999). Activation of the middle fusiform "face area" increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. Nature Neuroscience, 2(6): 568-573.

Gauthier, I., Williams, P., Tarr, M. J., & Tanaka, J. (1998). Training "Greeble" experts: A framework for studying expert object recognition processes. Vision Research, Special issue on "Models of Recognition", 38: 2401-2428.

Tarr, M. J., & Gauthier, I. (1998). Do viewpoint-dependent mechanisms generalize across members of a class? Cognition, Special issue on "Image-based Recognition in Man, Monkey, and Machine", 67, 71-108.

Tarr., M. J., Williams, P., Hayward, W. G., & Gauthier, I. (1998). Three-dimensional object recognition is viewpoint dependent. Nature Neuroscience, 1, 275-277.

Williams, P., Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1998). Feature learning during the acquisition of perceptual expertise [Commentary on Schyns, Goldstone & Thibault The development of features in object concepts]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21(1), 40-41.

Gauthier, I., Anderson, A.W., Tarr, M. J., Skudlarski, P., & Gore J.C. (1997). Levels of categorization in visual recognition studied with functional MRI. Current Biology, 7(9), 645-651.

Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1997). Becoming a "Greeble" expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Vision Research, 37(12), 1673-1682.
   
Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (1997). Orientation priming of novel shapes in the context of viewpoint-dependent recognition. Perception, 26(1), 51-73.

• Gauthier, I. (in press). Constraints on the acquisition of specialization for face processing. Attention & Performance, Vol. XXI, Eds. Yuko Munakata and Mark Johnson.

•Viele, K., Kass, R. E., Tarr, M.J., Behrmann, M. & Gauthier, I. (2002) Recognition of faces versus Greebles: A case study in model selection. In: Case Studies in Bayesian Statistics, Volume VI., pp. 91-133. Gatsonis, C., Kass, R. E., Carriquiry, A., Gelman, A., Higdon, D., Pauler, D. K., & Verdinelli, I. (Eds), Springer-Verlag, New York.

• Gauthier, I. (2002). Face expertise and category specialization in the human occipitotemporal cortex. In. Kaas, J. & Collins. C. (Eds). The Primate Visual System, CRC press.

• Tanaka, J. W., & Gauthier, I. (1997). Expertise in object and face recognition. In Medin, Goldstone & Schyns (eds.), Mechanisms of Perceptual Learning, Vol. 36 (pp. 83-125).

•Wong, A. C.-N., Curran, T., Woroch, B. & Gauthier, I. (2004). N170 associated with expertise in letter perception. Fourth Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, April
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•James, K. H., Martelli, M., James, T. W., Pelli, D. G. & Gauthier, I. (2004). FMRI reveals the role of the left anterior fusiform gyrus in letter detection and identification. Fourth Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, April.

•James, T.W., & Gauthier, I. (2004). Experience induced changes in the timecourse of brain activation. Computational Neuroimaging: Adaptation and Priming, University of Minnesota, USA.

• James, T.W., & Gauthier, I. (2004). Backward masking reveals greater fMRI activation with primed objects. Fourth Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, USA

•Curby, K. M., Schyns, P., Gosselin, F. & Gauthier, I. (2003). Differential Use of Spatial Frequency scales for face recognition in a person with Asperger’s Syndrome. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

•Gauthier, I., Curran, T., Curby, K.M. & Collins, D. (2003). Perceptual Interference for a non-modular account of face processing. Presented at 10th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience society, NYC, March.

•Gauthier, I., Tanaka, J. W. & Brown, D. D. (2003). When misaligned faces are processed holistically. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

• James, T.W. & Gauthier, I. (2003). fMRI Studies of Multi-Modal Semantic Knowledge using Artificial Concepts. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

• James, K. H., Roy, S. & Gauthier, I. (2003). Visual perception is affected by motor experience: Evidence from letter recognition. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

•Vickery, T. & Gauthier, I. (2003). Keeping a straight face: configural processing and the aperture capture illusion. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

• Wong, C.-N. & Gauthier (2003). The basic level as the entry point of expert letter recognition. Presented at 10th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience society, NYC, March.

• Wong, C.-N. & Gauthier (2003). Font tuning differentiates experts and novices in letter recognition. Presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Vision ScienceS Society, Sarasota, FA, May.

•Curby, K.M., Hayward, W. G., & Gauthier, I. (2002). Left-hemisphere viewpoint-independent recognition depends on semantic information. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City, KS, November.

•Curby, K.M., & Gauthier, I. (2002). Face-seleectivity to highpass but not lowpass filtered images in a person with Asperger's syndrome. Presented at Human Brain Mapping, Sendai, Japan, June.

•Gauthier, I., & Epstein, R. (2002). Spatial frequency channels in the human FFA. Presented at Human Brain Mapping, Sendai, Japan, June.

•Gauthier, I. & Tanaka, J. W. (2002). Configural and holistic face processing: the Whole story. Vision Sciences Society.

•Goffaux, V., Gauthier, I. & Rossion, B. (2002). Early visual processing differences between faces and objects as revealed by the N170 potential are related to information carried out by low spatial frequencyfrequencies. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual meeting.

•Gauthier, I., Hayward, W. G., Wong, C. úN. & Cheung, S.-C.(2001). The role of font in letter recognition. Poster presented at Psychonomics, Orlando, Florida, November. Curby, K. M., & Gauthier, I. (2001). Interference between car and face expertise. Paper presented at the OPAM workshop, Orlando, Florida, November.

•Gauthier, I. & Epstein, R. (2001). The role of spatial frequencies in face-selective areas: Task-dependent effects. Presented at Human Brain Mapping, Brighton, June.

•Gauthier, I. (2001). Selectivity for the face geometry during development: constraints from adult work, SRCD symposium discussion. Minneapolis, MN, April.

•Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M.J (2001). FFA: A Flexible Fusiform Area for subordinate-level visual processing automatized by expertise. Talk presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual meeting, New York, NY, March.

•Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M.J. (2000). Dissociating configural and holistic processing for faces (and cars!). Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, November.

•Rossion, B., Gauthier, I., Delvenne, J.-F., Tarr, M.J., Bruyer, R., & Crommelinck, M. (1999). Does the N170 occipito-temporal component reflect a face-specific structural encoding stage?. OPAM 99, Los Angeles, CA, November.

•Gauthier, I., Hayward, W.G.,Tarr, M. J., & Gore, J.C. (1999). An fMRI study of Mental Rotation vs. Object Recognition. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November, abstract in PDF format.

•Gauthier, I., Kanwisher, N., Anderson, A.W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J.C. (1999). Expertise for cars and birds recruits middle fusiform face-selective areas. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

•Gauthier, I. Anderson, A.W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J.C. (1999). Category-specific effects in the occipital lobe. Presented at Human Brain Mapping, Dusseldorf, Germany, June.

•Gauthier, I. Epstein, R. & Gore, J.C. (1999). The contribution of high and low spatial frequencies to the processing of objects, faces and scenes. Presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

• Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. (1998). Semantic similarity interacts with visual similarity in visual judgments. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas, TX, November.

•Gauthier, I., Moylan, J., Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., & Gore, J. C. (1998). Automatic subordinate-level processing for faces and letters. Presented at Human Brain Mapping, Montreal, CANADA, June.

•Gauthier, Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Anderson, A.W., & Gore J.C. (1998). The functionally defined "face area" is engaged by subordinate-level recognition. Presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April.

•Marois, R., Gauthier, & Gore, J. C. Neural substrates of perceptual grouping. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 23, 802.17.

•Gauthier, I., Tarr, M.J., Anderson A.W., Skudlarski, P. & Gore, J. C. Expertise Training with novel objects can recruit the fusiform face area. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 23, 868.5.

•Gauthier, I., Tarr, M.J., Anderson A.W., Skudlarski, P. & Gore, J. C. Behavioral and neural changes following expertise training. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, PA, November.
•Schultz, R. T., Gauthier, I., Fulbright, R., Anderson, A. W., Lacadie, C., Skudlarski, P., Tarr, M. J., Cohen, D. J., & Gore, J. C. (1997). Are face identity and emotion processed automatically? Poster presented at Human Brain Mapping 97, Coppenhagen, Denmark.

•Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M., & Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Gore, J. C., & McClelland, J.L. (1996). Subordinate-level categorization in human inferior temporal cortex: Converging evidence from neuropsychology and brain imaging. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 22, 8.

•Gauthier, I., Anderson, A. W., Tarr, M. J., , Gore, J. C. (1996). Levels of categorization in visual object recognition studied with fMRI. Poster presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Fransisco, March 31 - April 2.

•Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. (1995). Becoming a "Greeble" expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Poster presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November.

• Tarr., M. J., Hayward, W. G., Gauthier, I., & Williams, P. (1994). Geon recognition is viewpoint dependent. Presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November 11-13.

•Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. (1994). Generalization of viewpoint specific representations to new exemplars of a category. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA, March 31-April 2.

• Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. (1994). The effect of advance information on object identification with novel objects. Paper presented at the 1st Object Perception And Memory workshop, St. Louis, MO, November 10.