Short Biography
Dr. Galit Yovel received her PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from
the University of Chicago in 2001. She then completed a post-doctoral
training in fMRI of high level vision in the department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Galit joined the Department of Psychology as a
faculty member in 2005.
Fields of Interest
Cognitive Neuroscience of high-level vision. Face and Object Perception. Individual Differences in visual processing.
Selected publications
Yovel, G., Levy J., Grabowecky M., Paller KA. (2003)
Neuralcorrelates of the left-visual-field superiority in face perception appear at multiple stages of face perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15: 462-474.
Yovel G., & Paller KA. (2004)
The neural basis of the butcher on the bus phenomenon: When a face seems familiar but is not remembered. NeuroImage 21(2): 789-800.
Yovel G., & Kanwisher N. (2004)
Face perception: Domain specific for faces, not process specific for configural processing, Neuron 44(5) 889-898
Yovel, G., Levy J., Paller KA (2005)
A whole face is more than the sum of its two halves: Interactive processing in face perception. Visual Cognition 12(2) 337-352
Yovel G., Kanwisher N. (2005)
The neural basis of the face inversion effect Current Biology, 15, 2256-2262
Duchaine B., Yovel G., Butterworth E., Nakayama K. (2006) Elimination of all domain-general hypotheses of prosopagnosia in a single individual with developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology 23(5), 714-747
Galit Yovel & Brad Duchaine (2006) Specialized Face Perception Mechanisms Extract Both Part and Spacing Information: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia Journal Cognitive Neuroscience 18: 580-593.
Kanwisher, N.& Yovel G. (2006) The Fusiform Face Area: A Cortical Region Specialized for the Perception of Faces. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B 361, 2109-2128.
Duchaine B. & Yovel G. (2007) Face Perception. In The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference. Eds Tom Albright and Richard Maslin
Pitcher D, Walsh V, Yovel G, Duchaine BC (2007) The occipital face area contributes to early stages of face processing: A TMS study. Current Biology 17 1568-1573
Sadeh, B., Zhdanov, A, Podlipsky I., Hendler, T & Yovel, G. (2008) The validity of the face-selective ERP N170 component during simultaneous recording with functional MRI. Neuroimage 42: 778-786
Yovel G, Tambini A, Brandman T (2008) The asymmetry of the fusiform face area is a stable individual characteristic that underlies the left-visual-field superiority for faces. Neuropsychologia 46: 3061-3068.
McKone E & Yovel G. (2009) Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Psychonomics Bulletin and Review 16(5):778-97
Yovel G, Pelc T. Lubezky I. (in press) It’s all in your head: Why is the body inversion effect abolished for headless bodies? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Sadeh B, Podlipsky I, Zadanov A. Yovel G, (in press) Face-selective fMRI and Event-related potential responses are highly correlated: Evidence from simultaneous ERP-fMRI investigation. Human Brain Mapping
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