The development of object individuation, a fundamental ability that supports identification and discrimination of objects across discrete encounters, has been examined extensively by researchers. There are significant advancements in infants' ability to individuate objects during the first year-and-a-half. Experimental work has established a timeline of object individuation abilities and reveal...

Historically, it has been argued that face individuation develops very slowly, not reaching adult levels until adolescence, with experience being the driving force behind this protracted improvement. Here, we challenge this view based on extensive review of behavioural and neural findings. Results demonstrate qualitative presence of all key phenomena related to face individuation (encoding of n...

Controversy surrounds the proposal that specific human cortical regions in the ventral occipitotemporal cortex, commonly called the fusiform face area (FFA) and occipital face area (OFA), are specialized for face processing. Here, we present findings from an fMRI study of identity discrimination of faces and objects that demonstrates the FFA and OFA are equally responsive to processing stimuli ...

One hundred twenty–four college females completed measures of overall family enmeshed/disengaged boundaries, attachment to parents, autonomy from parents, differentiation from peers, and thinness and bulimia behaviors. Bootstrapping results for multiple mediators highlighted the specific indirect paths that the attachment/individuation process has in the relationship between an overall enmeshed...

Chris Barker Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego Judging from the way people talk, the number of entities in a given situation that get recognized as distinct individuals seems to depend on the specific communicative goals of a particular discourse. Admitting that semantic interpretation needs to provide a limited degree of ontological variability can resolve some emp...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 EARLY INFORMATION PROCESSING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OBJECT INDIVIDUATION 17 REVEALED BY PERCEPTION OF ILLUSORY FIGURES 18 19 Claire K. Naughtin, Jason B. Mattingley 2 & Paul E. Dux 20 21 School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia 4072 22 Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Australia 4072 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 3...

Rhythmically coordinating with a partner can increase pro-sociality, but pro-sociality does not appear to change in proportion to coordination success, or particular classes of coordination. Pro-social benefits may have more to do with simply coordinating in a social context than the details of the actual coordination (Cross et al., 2016). This begs the question, how stripped down can a coordin...

American youth are more prone to storm and stress during adolescence than are Chinese youth (e.g., American youth's engagement in school declines more). However, it is unclear why. This research examined differences in conceptions of adolescence in the United States and China. Using both open- and closed-ended measures, youth (N = 397; 50 % female; mean age = 13.19 years) reported on their view...