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Local Jekyll and Global Hyde: The Dual Identity of Face Identification

Miellet, Sébastien ; Caldara, Roberto ; Schyns, Philippe

In: Psychological Science, 2011, vol. 22, no. 12, p. 1518-1526

The main concern in face-processing research is to understand the processes underlying the identification of faces. In the study reported here, we addressed this issue by examining whether local or global information supports face identification. We developed a new methodology called “iHybrid.” This technique combines two famous identities in a gaze-contingent paradigm, which...

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Activation of Phonological Codes during Reading : Evidence from Eye Movements and Proofreading

Sparrow, Laurent ; Miellet, Sebastien

In: Brain & Language

This experiment explored the role of phonology in the activation of word meanings when homophonic and non homophonic errors were embedded in meaningful texts. The resulting data supported the position that phonological codes are activated very early in an eye fixation and are compatible with the verification model of Van Orden (1987).

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Phonological Codes are Assembled Before Word Fixation: Evidence from Boundary Paradigm in Sentence Reading

Miellet, Sebastien ; Sparrow, Laurent

In: Brain & Language

This experiment employed the boundary paradigm during sentence reading to explore the nature of early phonological coding in reading. Fixation durations were shorter when the parafoveal preview was the correct word than when it was a spelling control pseudoword. In contrast, there was no significant difference between correct word and pseudohomophone previews. These results suggest that the ...

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Investigating cultural diversity for extrafoveal information use in visual scenes.

Miellet, Sebastien ; Zhou, Xinyue ; He, Lingnan ; Rodger, Helen ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Journal of Vision, 2010, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 21

Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene...

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Word frequency and contextual predictability effects in reading: It depends where you’re coming from.

Hand, Christopher, J. ; Miellet, Sebastien ; O'Donnell, Patrick, J. ; Sereno, Sara, C.

In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010, vol. 36, no. 5, p. 1294-1313

A word’s frequency of occurrence and its predictability from a prior context are key factors determining how long the eyes remain on that word in normal reading. Past reaction-time and eye movement research can be distinguished by whether these variables, when combined, produce interactive or additive results, respectively. Our study addressed possible methodological limitations of prior...

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Social experience does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements

Kelly, David J. ; Jack, Rachael E. ; Miellet, Sebastien ; De Luca, Emanuele ; Foreman, Kay ; Caldara, Roberto

In: Frontiers in Cultural Psychology, 2011, vol. 2, p. 95

Adults from Eastern (e.g., China) and Western (e.g., USA) cultural groups display pronounced differences in a range of visual processing tasks. For example, the eye movement strategies used for information extraction during a variety of face processing tasks (e.g., identification and facial expressions of emotion categorization) differs across cultural groups. Currently, many of the...