Topic · Face Recognition and Perception
Most cited papers in Face Recognition and Perception
What are the most cited papers in Face Recognition and Perception?
The most cited paper in Face Recognition and Perception is "Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization" (Daniel D. Lee, H. Sebastian Seung, 1999), with 14,302 citations. Next come "An argument for basic emotions" (9,629) and "The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception" (8,016).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,461 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learning the parts of objects by non-negative matrix factorization Daniel D. Lee, H. Sebastian Seung · Nature | Oct 1999 | 14,302 |
| 2 | An argument for basic emotions Paul Ekman · Cognition & Emotion | May 1992 | 9,629 |
| 3 | The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott, Marvin M. Chun · Journal of Neuroscience | Jun 1997 | 8,016 |
| 4 | Controlled and automatic human information processing: II. Perceptual learning, automatic attending and a general theory. Richard M. Shiffrin, Walter Schneider · Psychological Review | Mar 1977 | 7,177 |
| 5 | Self-Perception Theory Daryl J. Bem · Advances in experimental social psychology | 1972 | 5,282 |
| 6 | The distributed human neural system for face perception James V. Haxby, James V. Haxby, Elizabeth A. Hoffman et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jun 2000 | 5,016 |
| 7 | Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease. David A. Gallo, Kameron R. Shahid, Meredith A. Olson et al. · Neuropsychology | Nov 2006 | 4,736 |
| 8 | Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex James V. Haxby, M. Ida Gobbini, Maura L. Furey et al. · Science | 28 Sep 2001 | 4,187 |
| 9 | Understanding face recognition Vicki Bruce, Andy Young · British Journal of Psychology | Aug 1986 | 3,987 |
| 10 | Meeting of minds: the medial frontal cortex and social cognition David M. Amodio, Chris Frith · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 21 Mar 2006 | 3,853 |
| 11 | Representational similarity analysis – connecting the branches of systems neuroscience Nikolaus Kriegeskorte · Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience | 2008 | 3,813 |
| 12 | Shifts in Selective Visual Attention: Towards the Underlying Neural Circuitry Christof Koch, Shimon Ullman | 1987 | 3,784 |
| 13 | Speed of processing in the human visual system Simon J. Thorpe, Denis Fize, Catherine Marlot · Nature | Jun 1996 | 3,602 |
| 14 | Guided Search 2.0 A revised model of visual search Jeremy M. Wolfe · Psychonomic Bulletin & Review | Jun 1994 | 3,578 |
| 15 | The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants Nim Tottenham, James W. Tanaka, Andrew C. Leon et al. · Psychiatry Research | 29 Jun 2009 | 3,547 |
| 16 | Saliency Detection: A Spectral Residual Approach Xiaodi Hou, Liqing Zhang | Jun 2007 | 3,456 |
| 17 | Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio · Nature Neuroscience | Nov 1999 | 3,428 |
| 18 | Looking at pictures: Affective, facial, visceral, and behavioral reactions Peter J. Lang, Mark K. Greenwald, Margaret M. Bradley et al. · Psychophysiology | May 1993 | 3,228 |
| 19 | Electrophysiological Studies of Face Perception in Humans Shlomo Bentin, Truett Allison, Aina Puce et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | Nov 1996 | 3,159 |
| 20 | A cortical representation of the local visual environment Russell A. Epstein, Nancy Kanwisher · Nature | Apr 1998 | 3,156 |
| 21 | Circular analysis in systems neuroscience: the dangers of double dipping Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, W. Kyle Simmons, Patrick S.F. Bellgowan et al. · Nature Neuroscience | 26 Apr 2009 | 2,866 |
| 22 | Autonomic Nervous System Activity Distinguishes Among Emotions Paul Ekman, ROBERT WAYNE LEVENSON, Wallace V. Friesen · Science | 16 Sep 1983 | 2,724 |
| 23 | Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction Carl Doersch, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros | Dec 2015 | 2,706 |
| 24 | Stereotaxic Display of Brain Lesions Chris Rorden, Matthew Brett · Behavioural Neurology | 2000 | 2,676 |
| 25 | Comprehensive database for facial expression analysis Takeo Kanade, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Yingli Tian | 7 Nov 2002 | 2,615 |
| 26 | Social perception from visual cues: role of the STS region Truett Allison, Truett Allison, Puce Aina et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jul 2000 | 2,497 |
| 27 | Selective Attention Gates Visual Processing in the Extrastriate Cortex Jeffrey Moran, Robert Desimone · Science | 23 Aug 1985 | 2,481 |
| 28 | Beyond mind-reading: multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data Kenneth A. Norman, Sean Matthew Polyn, Greg J. Detre et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 9 Aug 2006 | 2,436 |
| 29 | U2-Net: Going deeper with nested U-structure for salient object detection Xuebin Qin, Zichen Zhang, Chenyang Huang et al. · Pattern Recognition | 16 May 2020 | 2,428 |
| 30 | Facial expression and emotion. Paul Ekman · American Psychologist | 1993 | 2,420 |
| 31 | People thinking about thinking peopleThe role of the temporo-parietal junction in “theory of mind” Rebecca R. Saxe, Nancy Kanwisher · NeuroImage | 22 Jul 2003 | 2,386 |
| 32 | The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review Kristen A. Lindquist, Tor Dessart Wager, Hedy Kober et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 23 May 2012 | 2,376 |
| 33 | To See or not to See: The Need for Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes Ronald A. Rensink, John O'Regan, James J. Clark · Psychological Science | Sep 1997 | 2,372 |
| 34 | Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, H. Damasio et al. · Nature | Dec 1994 | 2,366 |
| 35 | Information-based functional brain mapping Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Rainer Goebel, Peter A. Bandettini · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 28 Feb 2006 | 2,330 |
| 36 | Development and neurophysiology of mentalizing Uta Frith, Chris Frith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 4 Feb 2003 | 2,327 |
| 37 | First Impressions Janine Willis, Alexander T. Todorov · Psychological Science | Jul 2006 | 2,327 |
| 38 | AffectNet: A Database for Facial Expression, Valence, and Arousal Computing in the Wild Ali Mollahosseini, Behzad Hasani, Mohammad H. Mahoor · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing | 21 Aug 2017 | 2,302 |
| 39 | Emotion and motivation I: Defensive and appetitive reactions in picture processing. Margaret M. Bradley, Maurizio Codispoti, Bruce N. Cuthbert et al. · Emotion | 2001 | 2,249 |
| 40 | Parts and Wholes in Face Recognition James W. Tanaka, Martha J. Farah · The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A | May 1993 | 2,216 |
| 41 | Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula Bruno Wicker, Christian Keysers, Jane Plailly et al. · Neuron | Oct 2003 | 2,194 |
| 42 | Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex Daniel L. K. Yamins, Ha Hong, Charles F. Cadieu et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 May 2014 | 2,181 |
| 43 | The many faces of configural processing Daphne M. Maurer, Richard Le Grand, Catherine J. Mondloch · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Jun 2002 | 2,158 |
| 44 | A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body Paul E. Downing, Yuhong V. Jiang, Miles Shuman et al. · Science | 28 Sep 2001 | 2,138 |
| 45 | Functional imaging of ‘theory of mind’ Helen L. Gallagher, Chris Frith · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | Feb 2003 | 2,121 |
| 46 | Are there basic emotions? Paul Ekman · Psychological Review | 1992 | 2,117 |
| 47 | Event-Related fMRI: Characterizing Differential Responses Karl John Friston, Paul Charles Fletcher, Oliver Josephs et al. · NeuroImage | 1998 | 2,098 |
| 48 | Measures of emotion: A review Iris B. Mauss, Michael D. Robinson · Cognition & Emotion | Feb 2009 | 2,095 |
| 49 | The eyes have it: the neuroethology, function and evolution of social gaze Nathan J. Emery · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews | Aug 2000 | 2,075 |
| 50 | Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Leila Reddy, Gabriel Kreiman et al. · Nature | Jun 2005 | 2,068 |
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