Brad Duchaine
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Area of Expertise
Face perception,
prosopagnosia,
neuropsychology,
TMS,
cognitive genetics
Biography
My lab uses neuropsychology, psychophysics, and neuroimaging to explore the cognitive, neural, developmental, and genetic basis of social perception. Much of our work focuses on prosopagnosia, a condition defined by severe face recognition deficits, and prosopometamorphopsia, a condition characterized by face perception distortions.
Education
B.A., Marquette University, 1994
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
Publications
Almeida, J., Freixo, A., Tabuas-Periera, M., Herald, S.B., Valerio, D., Schu, G., Duro, D., Cunha, G., Bukhari, Q., Duchaine, B., & Santana, I. (2020). Face-Specific Perceptual Distortions Reveal A View- and Orientation-Independent Face Template. Current Biology 30: 1-7.
Jiahui, G., Yang, H., & Duchaine, B. (2018). Developmental prosopagnosics have widespread selectivity reductions across category-selective visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115: E6418-E6427.
Dalrymple, K. & Duchaine, B. (2016). Impaired face detection may explain some but not all cases of developmental prosopagnosia. Developmental Science. 19(3), 440-451.
Duchaine, B. & Yovel, G. (2015). A revised neural framework for face processing. Annual Review of Vision Science, 1: 393-416.
Rezlescu, C., Pitcher, D., Barton, J.J.S., & Duchaine, B. (2014). Normal acquisition of expertise with greebles in two cases of acquired prosopagnosia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111: 5123-5128.
Wilmer, JB, Germine, L, Chabris, CF, Chatterjee, G, Williams, W, Loken, E, Nakayama, K, & Duchaine B. (2010). Human face recognition ability is highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107: 5238-5241.
Pitcher, D, Charles, L, Devlin, J, Walsh, V, & Duchaine, B (2009). Triple dissociation between faces, bodies, and objects in extrastriate cortex. Current Biology, 19: 319-324.
Duchaine, B, Yovel, G, Butterworth, E., & Nakayama, K. (2006). Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23: 714-747.
Works in Progress
2020-2024: National Science Foundation - Eye movements and retinotopic face encoding in children, adults, and developmental prosopagnosia
2020-2024: National Eye Institute - Beyond Faces: Widening the lens on developmental prosopagnosia
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