Face and Object Perception¶
Scope: Processes that recover identity, category, or structure from sensory form: face identity, face perception, visual object recognition, visual form recognition, visual perception, pattern recognition, motion perception (including biological motion), depth perception; plus the non-visual object-perception rows (somatosensory, gustatory, olfactory, proprioceptive) that have no better home.
Out of scope: Faces and objects as stimulus categories — HED handles those on the stimulus axis.
Note
Open issues: The non-visual perceptual rows (gustatory, olfactory, somatosensory) are grouped here pragmatically rather than because they belong with faces and objects. If a separate “Non-visual perception” category is ever needed, it would pull them out. For now the grouping reflects “perception of form across modalities”.
This category contains 12 processes.
Biological motion perception¶
Process ID: hed_biological_motion_perception
Also known as: biological motion - common shorthand in titles even when the paper is about perception of biological motion
Recognition of animate motion from sparse kinematic cues, such as point-light displays.
Tasks that engage this process: Biological Motion Perception Task
Fundamental references
Johansson (1973) Perception & Psychophysics 14:201–211 (DOI)
Further references
Pavlova (2012) Cerebral Cortex 22:981–995
Depth perception¶
Process ID: hed_depth_perception
Perception of distance and three-dimensional structure from monocular and binocular cues.
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Fundamental references
Julesz (1971) Foundations of Cyclopean Perception
Further references
Face identity recognition¶
Process ID: hed_face_identity_recognition
Also known as: face recognition
Identification of an individual from face-specific features.
Tasks that engage this process: Cambridge Face Memory Task
Fundamental references
Bruce & Young (1986) British Journal of Psychology 77:305–327 (DOI)
Further references
Duchaine & Yovel (2015) Annual Review of Vision Science 1:393–416 (DOI)
Face perception¶
Process ID: hed_face_perception
Also known as: face processing
Recognition and processing of faces as a specialized perceptual category; N170-sensitive, FFA-dependent.
Tasks that engage this process: Cambridge Face Memory Task, Face Processing Task, Facial Emotion Recognition Task, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task, Weapons Identification Task
Fundamental references
Kanwisher, McDermott & Chun (1997) Journal of Neuroscience 17:4302–4311 (DOI)
Further references
Tsao & Livingstone (2008) Annual Review of Neuroscience 31:411–437 (DOI)
Gustatory perception¶
Process ID: hed_gustatory_perception
Also known as: Gustation
Perception of taste qualities (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umami).
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Further references
Motion perception¶
Process ID: hed_motion_perception
Detection and interpretation of moving stimuli; includes global motion and optic flow.
Tasks that engage this process: Biological Motion Perception Task, Random Dot Kinematogram Task
Fundamental references
Newsome & Paré (1988) Journal of Neuroscience 8:2201–2211 (DOI)
Further references
Nishida (2011) Vision Research 51:645–673
Olfactory perception¶
Process ID: hed_olfactory_perception
Also known as: olfaction
Perception of odor via the olfactory system.
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Fundamental references
Further references
Pattern recognition¶
Process ID: hed_pattern_recognition
Categorization of sensory input according to its structure.
Tasks that engage this process: Artificial Grammar Learning Task, Biological Motion Perception Task, Raven’s Progressive Matrices Task
Further references
Somatosensory perception¶
Process ID: hed_somatosensory_perception
Also known as: Somatosensation
Perception of bodily sensations, including touch, proprioception, temperature, and pain.
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Further references
Visual form recognition¶
Process ID: hed_visual_form_recognition
Also known as: shape recognition
Assignment of visual input to a shape category prior to semantic identification.
Tasks that engage this process: none in the current Catalog.
Fundamental references
Biederman (1987) Psychological Review 94:115–147 (DOI)
Further references
Visual object recognition¶
Process ID: hed_visual_object_recognition
Also known as: object recognition
Identification of objects from visual input, invariant over viewpoint, size, and lighting.
Tasks that engage this process: Face Processing Task, Picture Naming Task, Weapons Identification Task
Further references
Visual perception¶
Process ID: hed_visual_perception
Perception of visual information; includes form, motion, depth, color, and spatial layout.
Tasks that engage this process: Affective Picture Viewing Task, Biological Motion Perception Task, Cambridge Face Memory Task, Digit Symbol Substitution Task, Face Processing Task, Mental Rotation Task, Navon Task, Random Dot Kinematogram Task, Raven’s Progressive Matrices Task, Useful Field of View Task, Visual Masking Task, Visual Search Task
Fundamental references
Hubel & Wiesel (1962) Journal of Physiology 160:106–154 (DOI)
Further references