The Origins of Face Processing in Humans: Phylogeny and Ontogeny

The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

1997 • 7,572 citations

The distributed human neural system for face perception

2000 • 4,719 citations

Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans

1996 • 3,003 citations

Newborns' preferential tracking of face-like stimuli and its subsequent decline

1991 • 1,423 citations

Eye contact detection in humans from birth

2002 • 1,344 citations

A Unified Account of the Effects of Distinctiveness, Inversion, and Race in Face Recognition

1991 • 1,344 citations

Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness

1998 • 1,285 citations

Visual Following and Pattern Discrimination of Face-like Stimuli by Newborn Infants

1975 • 1,133 citations

CONSPEC and CONLERN: A two-process theory of infant face recognition.

1991 • 1,064 citations

Prenatal maternal speech influences newborns' perception of speech sounds

1986 • 1,031 citations

Becoming a “Greeble” Expert: Exploring Mechanisms for Face Recognition

1997 • 1,008 citations

Differential Sensitivity of Human Visual Cortex to Faces, Letterstrings, and Textures: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

1996 • 1,002 citations

Prenatal and Postnatal Flavor Learning by Human Infants

2001 • 982 citations

Subcortical face processing

2005 • 945 citations

Visual Experience in Infants: Decreased Attention to Familiar Patterns Relative to Novel Ones

1964 • 876 citations

Is Face Processing Species-Specific During the First Year of Life?

2002 • 876 citations

A predisposition for biological motion in the newborn baby

2008 • 784 citations

The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy

2007 • 723 citations

The N170 occipito-temporal component is delayed and enhanced to inverted faces but not to inverted objects

2000 • 717 citations

A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing

2003 • 689 citations

Three‐month‐olds, but not newborns, prefer own‐race faces

2005 • 650 citations

Representation of the Gender of Human Faces by Infants: A Preference for Female

2002 • 645 citations

Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing

2006 • 586 citations

Neonatal recognition of the mother's face

1989 • 580 citations

Early visual experience and face processing

2001 • 566 citations

The development and neural bases of face recognition

2001 • 546 citations

Specialization of Neural Mechanisms Underlying Face Recognition in Human Infants

2002 • 540 citations

Differential development of high-level visual cortex correlates with category-specific recognition memory

2007 • 529 citations

Mother's face recognition by neonates: A replication and an extension

1995 • 493 citations

Phonemic and phonetic factors in adult cross-language speech perception

1984 • 477 citations

Face perception in monkeys reared with no exposure to faces

2008 • 464 citations

Newborns' preference for face-relevant stimuli: Effects of contrast polarity

2005 • 449 citations

Face preference at birth.

1996 • 436 citations

Plasticity of face processing in infancy

2005 • 415 citations

Is there an innate gaze module? Evidence from human neonates

2000 • 398 citations

Visual signals of individual identity in the waspPolistes fuscatus

2002 • 384 citations

Facial appearance is a cue to oestrogen levels in women

2005 • 379 citations

Face Perception During Early Infancy

1999 • 377 citations

Speech perception as a window for understanding plasticity and commitment in language systems of the brain

2005 • 367 citations

Monkeys Reared in Isolation with Pictures as Visual Input: Evidence for an Innate Releasing Mechanism

1966 • 339 citations

Mother-stranger face discrimination by the newborn

1984 • 339 citations

Cortical specialisation for face processing: face-sensitive event-related potential components in 3- and 12-month-old infants

2003 • 332 citations

Newborn infants prefer attractive faces

1998 • 326 citations

A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination

2007 • 319 citations

Face preference at birth.

1996 • 305 citations

Sheep don't forget a face

2001 • 301 citations

Neural Correlates of Woman Face Processing by 2-Month-Old Infants

2002 • 295 citations

Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle

2004 • 295 citations

Recognition memory in 3− to 4-day-old human neonates

1994 • 216 citations

Fetal sensory competencies

1996 • 201 citations

Recognition of individual faces and average face prototypes by 1- and 3-month-old infants

2001 • 200 citations

Discrimination of Voice Onset Time by Human Infants: New Findings and Implications for the Effects of Early Experience

1981 • 198 citations

The eye direction detector (EDD) and the shared attention mechanism (SAM): Two cases for evolutionary psychology.

1995 • 197 citations

MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness

2005 • 197 citations

The role of the mother's voice in developing mother's face preference: Evidence for intermodal perception at birth

2004 • 191 citations

Newborns’ face recognition over changes in viewpoint

2007 • 177 citations

Discrimination of Voice Onset Time by Human Infants: New Findings and Implications for the Effects of Early Experience

1981 • 174 citations

Newborn Infants' Preference for Attractive Faces: The Role of Internal and External Facial Features

2000 • 173 citations

Cross‐Race Preferences for Same‐Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3‐Month‐Old Infants

2007 • 172 citations

Distinctive Features and Laryngeal Control

1971 • 151 citations

The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood: current perspectives

2001 • 147 citations

Developmental shifts in cortical loci for face and object recognition

2004 • 140 citations

The role of facial orientation in newborn infants’ preference for attractive faces

2000 • 137 citations

Cross-modal recognition of shape from hand to eyes in human newborns

2003 • 128 citations

The effect of early visual deprivation on the development of face processing

2002 • 124 citations

Newborns’ face recognition is based on spatial frequencies below 0.5 cycles per degree

2007 • 116 citations

Channel surfing in the visual brain

2006 • 113 citations

Inhibition of return in newborns is temporo-nasal asymmetrical

1995 • 112 citations

A modulatory role for facial expressions in prosopagnosia

2003 • 110 citations

Recognition of Familiar Individuals in Golden Hamsters: A New Method and Functional Neuroanatomy

2005 • 103 citations

Abnormal activation of face processing systems at early and intermediate latency in individuals with autism spectrum disorder: a magnetoencephalographic study

2005 • 91 citations

Task-dependent early latency (30???60 ms) visual processing of human faces and other objects

2001 • 65 citations

Species preference by infant macaques with controlled social experience

1990 • 48 citations

Development of face recognition in an infant gibbon (Hylobates agilis)

2001 • 44 citations

Development of schematic face preference in macaque monkeys

2004 • 42 citations

Role of some physical characteristics in species recognition by pigtail monkeys

1993 • 32 citations

Infant monkeys' visual responses to drawings of normal and distorted faces

1998 • 30 citations

Individual Auditory Recognition in the Least Tern (Sterna albifrons)

1979 • 25 citations

Face perception at birth and beyond.

2003 • 18 citations