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October 2018 CURICULUM VITAE

Name: Irving Biederman Current Position: Harold W. Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience

Departments of Psychology, Computer Science and the Neuroscience Program

Address: University of Southern California, Department of Psychology, 3641 Watt Way, Hedco Neurosciences Building, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 Phones: (213) 740-6094 (Office); (213) 740-6102 (Lab) (310) 614-3903 (Cell) Fax: (213) 740-5687 Email: [email protected] Home page: http://geon.usc.edu Educational Background: University of Michigan Ph.D. 1963-1966 University of Michigan M.S. 1961-1963 Brooklyn College B.S. 1957-1961 Positions Held: University of Southern California: Harold W. Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, 1999-

Present; Keck Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. 1991-1999, Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and the Neuroscience Program; Co-Director, Neuroscience Major, 2010-2016.

University of Minnesota: Fesler-Lampert Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive

Science, Department of Psychology, 1987-1992; Graduate Faculties of Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience.

State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Psychology: Assistant Professor

1965-71; Associate Professor 1971-73; Professor 1973-1987. University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Visiting Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2006. University of Munich, Munich, Germany. Visiting Professor of Psychology, 2000. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Visiting Professor of Psychology,

1981; 1988. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Consulting Program Manager, Cognitive

Science, 1985-1986 University of California, Santa Cruz. Visiting Professor of Psychology, 1984-85.

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Stanford University. Visiting Professor of Psychology, 1971-2; 1979-81. Research Interests: Basic: Neural Basis of Higher Level Vision: Shape, Object, Face, and Scene Perception; Voice Recognition, Cognitive Neuroscience; Effects of Cortical Lesions; Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure; Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive Psychology; Intelligence, Creativity. Applied: Human Pattern Recognition, Human Factors Engineering, Eyewitness Testimony, Photointerpretation, Computer Vision. Teaching Experience: Cognitive Neuroscience Shape Recognition Visual Cognition Human Factors Engineering Cognitive Psychology Statistics and Experimental Methodology Evolutionary Psychology Current Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience PUBLICATIONS: Hacker, C. M., & Biederman, I. (2018). Why Stretching an Image of a Face Has No

Effect on its Recognition. Submitted for publication.

Meschke, E. X., & Biederman, I. (2018). Discriminating doppelgangers. Submitted for publication.

Peissig, J. J., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2018). Object Recognition in Pigeons Using Categorization and Pseudocategorization Tasks. Behavioural Processes, in press.

Hacker, C. M., Meschke, E. X., & Biederman, I. (2018). A face in a (temporal) crowd. Vision Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2018.02.007

Biederman, I., Shilowich, B. E., Herald, S. B., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., Meschke, E. X., & Hacker, C. M. (2018). The cognitive neuroscience of person identification. Neuropsychologia, 116, 205-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.036

Margalit, E., Biederman, I., Tjan, B. S., Shah, M. P. (2017). What is actually affected by

the scrambling of objects when localizing LOC? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29:9, 1595-1604.

Amir, O., & Biederman, I. (2016). The neural correlates of humor creativity. Frontiers in

Human Neuroscience, 10:597.doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00597.

Margalit, E., Shah, M. P., Tjan, B., Biederman, I., Keller, B., & Brenner, R. (2016). The

lateral occipital complex shows no net response to object familiarity. Journal of Vision, 78:2298–2306. doi 10.3758/s13414-016-1191-7


Margalit, E., Biederman, I., Herald, S. B., Yue, X., & von der Malsburg, C. (2016). An

applet for the Gabor scaling of the differences between complex stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 78(8), 2298-2306. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1191-7.

Vessel, E., Biederman, I., Subramaniam, S., & Greene, M. R. (2016). Effective signaling

of surface boundaries by L-vertices reflect the consistency of their contrast in natural images. Journal of Vision, 16(9):15, 1–10. doi:10.1167/16.9.15.

Shilowich, B. E., & Biederman, I. (2016). An estimate of the prevalence of

developmental phonagnosia. Brain & Language, 159, 84-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.05.004.

Xu, X., Biederman, I., Shilowich, B. E., Herald, S. G., Amir, O., & Allen, N. E. (2015).

Developmental phonagnosia: Neural correlates and a behavioral marker. Brain & Language, 149, 106-117.

Peissig, J., Nagasakam, Y., Young, M., Wasserman, E., & Biederman, I. (2015). Using

the reassignment procedure to test object representation in pigeons and people. Learning & Behavior, 48, 188-207.

Xu, X., Biederman, I., & Shah, M. S. (2014). A neurocomputational account of the face

configural effect. Journal of Vision, 14, 1-9. http://www.journalofvision.org/content/14/8/9

Amir, O., Biederman, I., Herald, S. B., Shah, M. P., & Mintz, T. H. (2014). Greater

sensitivity to nonaccidental than metric shape properties in preschool children. Vision Research,97, 83-88. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.02.006

Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2014). Neural correlates of face detection. Cerebral Cortex,

24, 1555-1564. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht005. Dickinson, S., & Biederman, I. (2014). Geons. In Ikeuchi, K. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of

Computer Vision. Pp. 338-346. Springer. Herald, S. B., Xu, X., Biederman, I., Amir, O., & Shilowich, B. E. (2014). Phonagnosia: A

voice homologue to prosopagnosia. Visual Cognition, 22:8, 1031-1033. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2014.960670

Amir, O., Biederman, I., Wang, Z., & Xu, X. (2013). Ha Ha vs. Aha! A direct comparison

of humor to non-humorous insight for determining the neural correlates of mirth. Cerebral Cortex, 62, 35-43. Link: http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bht343?ijkey=QodzmzncQc755UY&keytype=ref

Biederman, I. (2013). Human object recognition: appearance vs. shape. Ch. 26, Pp.

387-397. In S. J. Dickenson, & Z. Pizlo (Eds.) Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision. London: Springer.


Biederman, I. (2013). Remembering Edward E. Smith. Association for Psychological

Science Observer, 26, 4. Kim, J. G., & Biederman, I. (2012). Greater sensitivity to nonaccidental than metric

changes in the relations between simple shapes in the lateral occipital cortex. NeuroImage, 63, 1818-1826.

Lescroart, M. D., & Biederman, I. (2012). Cortical Representation of Medial Axis

Structure. Cerebral Cortex, 23, 629-637. Link: http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/3/629.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=ViZxj18V5lsFoz2

Biederman, I. (2012). Psychophysical and Neural Correlates of the Phenomenology of

Shape. Ch. 17, Pp. 417-436. In L. Albertazzi (Ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology: Visual Perception of Shape, Space and Appearance. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Dickinson, S., & Biederman, I. (2012). Geons. In Ikeuchi, K. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of

Computer Vision. Springer. Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2012). Recognition-by-components: A bird’s eye

view. In Lazareva, O. F., Shimizu, T., Wasserman, E. A. How animals see the world: Comparative behavior and biology of vision. Oxford University Press. Ch. 11, 191-216. Oxford University Press.

Amir, O., Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2012). Sensitivity to nonaccidental

properties across various shape dimensions. Vision Research, 72, 35-53. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.020

Yue, X., Biederman, I., Mangini, M. C., von der Malsburg, C., & Amir, O. (2012). Predicting the Psychophysical Similarity of Faces and Non-Face Complex Shapes by Image-Based Measures. Vision Research, 15, 41-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2011.12.012

Biederman, I. (2011). Herschel W. Leibowitz. (Obituary). Psychological Science

Observer, 24, 21. Hayworth, K. J., Lescroart, M. D., & Biederman, I. (2011). Neural coding of relative

position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(4), 1032-1050.

Amir, O., Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2011). The neural basis of shape

preferences. Vision Research, 20, 2198-2206. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2011.08.015 Hayworth, K. J., Lescroart, M. D., & Biederman, I. (2011). Neural encoding of relative

position. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 37(4), 1032-1050. doi: 10.1037/a0022338


Kim, J., Biederman, I., & Juan, C-H. (2011). The benefit of object Interactions arises in the lateral occipital cortex independent of attentional modulation from the intraparietal sulcus: a TMS study. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(22), 8320-8324.

Kim, J. G., & Biederman, I. (2011). Where do objects become scenes? Cerebral

Cortex, 21(8), 1738-1746 doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq240 Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2010). Loci of the release from fMRI adaptation for changes in

facial expression, identity, and viewpoint. Journal of Vision, 10(14):36, 1-13. doi:10.1167/10.14.36.

Lescroart, M. D., Biederman, I., Yue, X., & Davidoff, J. (2010). A cross-cultural study of

the representation of shape: Sensitivity to underlying generalized-cone dimensions. Visual Cognition, 18 (1), 50-66.

Xu, X., Yue, X., Lescroart, M., Biederman, I., & Kim, J. G. (2009). Adaptation in the

fusiform face area (FFA): Image or Person? Vision Research, 49, 2000-2007. Biederman, I., Yue, X., & Davidoff, J. (2009). Representation of shape in individuals

from a culture with minimal exposure to regular simple artifacts: Sensitivity to nonaccidental vs. metric properties. Psychological Science, 20, 1437-1442.

Kim, J., Biederman, I., Lescroart, M. D., & Hayworth, K. J. (2009). Adaptation to objects

in the lateral occipital complex (LOC): Shape or semantics? Vision Research, 49, 2297-2305.

Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (2009). Evidence for complete translational and

reflectional invariance in visual object priming. Perception, 38, A25-A33. Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (2009). Translational and reflectional priming

invariance. a retrospective. Perception, 38, 809-817. DOI: 10.1068/pmkbie [Invited as one of Perception’s 10 most highly cited papers.]

Lescroart, M. D., Yue, X., Biederman, I., & Davidoff, J. (2008). A cross-cultural study of

shape representation. Visual Cognition, 16, 117-120. Kim, J. G., Goldman, A. J., & Biederman, I. (2008). Blind or deaf? A matter of

aesthetics. Perception, 37, 949-950. Biederman, I., & Kim, J. (2008). 17,000 years of depicting the junction between two

smooth shapes. Perception, 37, 161-164. Lazareva, O. F., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2008). Pigeons and people are

more sensitive to nonaccidental than to metric changes in visual objects. Behavioral Processes, 77, 199-209.

N. Osaka, I. Rentschler & I. Biederman (Eds.) (2007). Object Recognition, Attention, &

Action. Tokyo: Springer. Biederman, I. (2007). Recent psychophysical and neural research in shape recognition.

In N. Osaka, I. Rentschler & I. Biederman (Eds.) Object Recognition, Attention, & Action. Ch. 5, pp. 71-88. Tokyo: Springer.


Nederhouser, M., Yue, X., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2007). The deleterious effect of contrast reversal on recognition is unique to faces, not objects. Vision Research, 47, 2134-2142.

Yue, X., Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2007). The neural basis of scene preferences.

NeuroReport, 18, 525-529. Russell, R., Biederman, I., Nederhouser, M, & Sinha, P. (2007). The utility of surface

reflectance for the recognition of upright and inverted faces. Vision Research, 47, 157-165.

Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2006). Neural evidence for intermediate

representations in object recognition. Vision Research, 46, 4024-4031. Peissig, J. J., Kirkpatrick, K., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2006).

Effects of varying stimulus size on object recognition in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 419-430.

Yue, X., Tjan, B., & Biederman, I. (2006). What makes faces special? Vision

Research, 46, 3802-3811. Martin-Malivel, J., Mangini, M. C., Fagot, J., & Biederman, I. (2006). Do humans and

baboons use the same information when categorizing human and baboon faces? Psychological Science, 17, 599-607.

Biederman, I., & Vessel, E. A. (2006). Perceptual pleasure and the brain. American

Scientist, 94, 247-253. Russell, R., Sinha, P., Biederman, I., Nederhouser, M. (2006). Is pigmentation

important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation. Perception, 35, 749-759.

Peissig, J. J., Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., and Biederman, I. (2005). The role of

edges in object recognition by pigeons. Perception, 34, 1353-1374. Kayaert, G., Biederman, I., Op de Beeck, H., & Vogels, R. (2005). Tuning for shape

dimensions in macaque inferior temporal cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 212-224.

Kayaert, G., Biederman, I., & Vogels, R. (2005). Representation of regular and irregular

shapes in macaque inferotemporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 15, 1308-1321. Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2004). Making the ineffable explicit: Estimating the

information employed for face classification. Cognitive Science, 28, 209-226. Biederman, I. (2003). On the relation between Kanizsa’s bias towards convexity and

the Gestaltists pragnanz from the perspective of current theory in shape recognition. Axiomathes, 13, 329-346.

Kayaert, G., Biederman, I., & Vogels, R. (2003). Shape tuning in macaque inferior

temporal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience,23, 3016-3027.


Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2003). Less impairment in face imagery than face perception in prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 41, 421-441.

Boucart, M., Biederman, I., Cuervo, C., Danion,. J.-M., & Wagemans, J. (2002). A study

of the effect of benzodiazepines on structural and conceptual priming, Psychopharmacology, 165, 43-50.

Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Biederman, I. (2002) Learning an

object from multiple views enhances its recognition in an orthogonal rotational axis in pigeons. Vision Research, 42, 2051-2062.

Lõrincz, A., Szirtes, G., Takãcs, B., Biederman, I., Vogels, R. (2002). Relating priming

and repetition suppression. International Journal of Neural Systems, 12, 187-202. Vogels, R., & Biederman, I. (2002). Effects of illumination intensity and direction on

object coding in macaque inferior temporal cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 12, 756-766. Fiser, J., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (2001). Size tuning in the absence of

spatial frequency tuning in object recognition. Vision Research, 41, 1931-1950. Vogels, R., Biederman, I., Bar, M, & Lorincz, A. (2001). Inferior temporal neurons show

greater sensitivity to nonaccidental than metric differences. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, 444-453.

Young, M. E., Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2001). Discrimination

of geons by pigeons: The effects of variations in surface depiction. Animal Learning & Behavior, 29, 97-106.

Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (2001). Invariance of long-term visual priming to scale,

reflection, translation, and hemisphere. Vision Research, 41, 221-234. Biederman, I. (2000). Recognizing depth-rotated objects: A review of recent research

and theory. Spatial Vision, 13, 241-253. Peissig, J. J. , Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). The pigeon’s

perception of depth rotated objects. Pp. 38-70. In J. Fagot (Ed.) Picture Perception in Animals. London, Psychology Press.

Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (2000). Views on views: Response to Hayward and Tar

(2000). Vision Research, 40, 3901-3905. Tanguay, A. R., Jr., Jenkins, B. K., von der Malsburg, C. v., Mel, B., Holt, G., O’Brian, J.,

Biederman, I., Madhukarm A., Nasiatka, P., & Huang, Y. (2000). Vertically integrated photonic multichip module architecture for vision applications. Optics in Computing 2000, 4089, 584-600.

O’Kane, B., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (2000). Modeling parameters for target

identification: A critical features analysis. Chapter 15, Pp. 15-1 to 15-18. In L. M. Biberman (Ed.) EO Imaging: System Performance and Modeling. N. Andover, MA: Ontar, SPIE Press.


Peissig, J. J. , Young, M. E., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). Seeing things from a different angle: The pigeon's recognition of single geons rotated in depth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 26, 115-132.

Subramaniam, S., Biederman, I., & Madigan, S. A. (2000). Accurate identification but

no priming and chance recognition memory for pictures in RSVP sequences. Visual Cognition, 7, 511-535.

Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). The pigeon's

discrimination of shape and location information. Visual Cognition, 7, 417-436. Biederman, I., Subramaniam, S., Bar, M., Kalocsai, P, & Fiser, J. Subordinate-Level

object classification reexamined. (1999). Psychological Research, 62, 131-153. Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1999). One-shot viewpoint invariance in matching novel

objects. Vision Research, 39, 2885-2899. Biederman, I., Subramaniam, S., Kalocsai, P., & Bar, M. (1999). Viewpoint-invariant

information in subordinate-level object classification. Chapter 3, Pp. 91-111. In D. Gopher & A. Koriat (Eds.), Attention and Performance XVII. Cognitive Regulation of Performance: Interaction of Theory and Application. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1999). Localizing the cortical region mediating visual

awareness of object identity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 1790-1793.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1998). Subliminal visual priming. Psychological Science, 9,

464-469. Kalocsai, P. & Biederman, I. (1998). Differences of face and object recognition in

utilizing early visual information. Pp. 492-502. In H. Wechsler, P. J., Phillips, V. Bruce, F. F. Soulie, & T. Huang (Eds.), Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications. NATO ASI Series F, Springer-Verlag.

Biederman, I. & Kalocsai, P. (1998). Neural and psychophysical analysis of object and

face recognition. Pp. 3-25. In H. Wechsler, P. J. Phillips, V. Bruce, F. F. Soulie, & T. Huang (Eds.), Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications. NATO ASI Series F, Springer-Verlag.

Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1998). Effects of geon

deletion, scrambling, and movement on picture recognition in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 24, 34-46.

Biederman, I., & Kalocsai, P. (1997). Neurocomputational bases of object and face

recognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London: Biological Sciences, 352, 1203-1219.


Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Hummel J. E. (1997). Recognition-by-geons: 1997's current progress and current challenges. Image and Vision Computing, 15, 280-284.

Kalocsai, P., & Biederman, I. (1997). Biologically inspired recognition model with

extension fields. Proceedings of the 4th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, pp. 116-123, University of California, San Diego.

O'Kane, B., Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Nystrom, B. (1997). An account of object

identification confusions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 3, 21-41. Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P.C., Cooper, E. E., & Nelson, C. A. (1997). High level

object recognition without an anterior inferior temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 35, 271-287.

Fiser, J., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1996). To what extent can matching

algorithms based on direct outputs of spatial filters account for human shape recognition? Spatial Vision, 10, 237-271.

Wasserman, E. A., Gagliardi, J. L., Cook, B. R., Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Astley, S. L., &

Biederman, I. (1996). The Pigeon's Recognition of Drawings of Depth Rotated Stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 22, 205-221.

Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1996). Effects of spatial

rearrangement of object components on picture recognition in pigeons. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 65, 465-475.

Biederman, I., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1995). Viewpoint-dependent mechanisms in

visual object recognition: Reply to Tarr and Bülthoff (1995). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 1506-1514.

Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (1995). Size invariance in visual object priming of gray scale

images. Perception, 24, 741-748. Fiser, J., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1995). Test of a two-layer network as a model

of human entry-level object recognition. Pp. 391-396. J. M. Bower (Ed.) The Neurobiology of Computation: Proceedings of the Third Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting. Boston: Kluewer.

Biederman, I., & Rovee-Collier, C. (1995). Perception, attention, learning, and memory

(Chapter 3, pp. 37-51). In G. H. Bower & J. F. Kihlstrom (Eds) Basic Behavioral Science Research for Mental Health: A National Investment. Rockville, MD.: National Institutes of Health.

Biederman, I. (1995). Visual object recognition. In S. M. Kosslyn and D. N. Osherson

(Eds.). An Invitation to Cognitive Science, 2nd edition, Volume 2, Visual Cognition. MIT Press. Chapter 4, pp. 121-165.


Biederman, I. (1995). Geon theory as an account of shape recognition in mind, brain, and network. Cognitive Studies: Bulletin of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, 2, 46-59.

Biederman, I. (1995). Some Problems of Visual Shape Recognition to Which the

Application of Clustering Mathematics Might Yield Some Potential Benefits. In I. J. Cox, P. Hansen, B. Julesz (Eds.) Partitioning Data Sets, Pp. 313-329. Providence, R. I.: American Mathematical Society.

O'Kane, B. L., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1994). Shape features for target

identification derived from thermal imagery. Proceedings of the 19th Army Science Conference, Orlando.

O'Kane, B. L., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1994). Modeling thermal target vehicle

identification: Beyond resolution and noise. Proceedings of the IRIS Symposium on Passive Sensors, II (1994), 225-242.

Wasserman, E. A., Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Van Hamme, L. J. & Biederman, I. (1993).

Pigeons are sensitive to the spatial organization of complex visual stimuli. Psychological Science, 4, 336-341.

Biederman, I., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1993). Recognizing depth-rotated objects:

Evidence and conditions for 3D viewpoint invariance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 1162-1182.

Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., Hummel, J. E., & Fiser, J. (1993). Geon theory as an

account of shape recognition in mind, brain, and machine. In J. Illingworth (Ed.) Proceedings of the 4th British Machine Vision Conference, 1, 175-186. Surrey, Guildford, U.K.: BMVA Press

Biederman, I. (1993). Geon theory as an account of shape recognition in mind and

brain. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 14, 314-327. Biederman, I., Hummel, J. E., Cooper, E. E., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1993). Shape

recognition in mind, brain, and machine. In P. Rudomen, M. A. Arbib, F. Cervantes-Perez, & R. Romo (Eds.) Neuroscience: From Neural Networks to Artificial Intelligence (Pp. 282-293.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Van Hamme, L. J., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1992). Discrimination of

contour-deleted images by pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 18, 387-399.

Biederman, I. (1992). Human Image Understanding. In P. Johansen & S. Olsen (Eds.)

Theory and Applications of Image Analyses. (Pp. 3-14). Singapore: World Scientific. Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1992). Dynamic binding in a neural network for shape

recognition. Psychological Review, 99, 480-517.


Cooper, E. E., Biederman, I., & Hummel, J. E. (1992). Metric invariance in object recognition: A review and further evidence. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 46, 191-214.

Biederman, I., Hummel, J. E., Gerhardstein, P. C., & Cooper, E. E. (1992). From

Image Edges to Geons to Viewpoint Invariant Object Models: A Neural Net Implementation. Applications of Artificial Intelligence X: Machine Vision and Robotics, 1708, 570-578, SPIE Proceedings Series.

Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., Fox, P. W., & Mehadevan, R. S. (1992). Unexceptional

spatial memory in an exceptional memorist. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 654-657.

Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1992). Size invariance in visual object priming. Journal

of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 121-133. York, J. L., & Biederman, I. (1991). Hand movement speed and accuracy in detoxified

alcoholics. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 15, 982-990. Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1991). Evidence for complete translational and

reflectional invariance in visual object priming. Perception, 20, 585-593. Biederman, I., Hilton, H. J., & Hummel, J. E. (1991). Pattern goodness and pattern

recognition. In J. R. Pomerantz & G. R. Lockhead (Eds.) The Perception of Structure, (Chapter 5, Pp. 73-95). Washington, D.C.: APA.

Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1991). Object recognition and laterality: Null Results.

Neuropsychologia, 29, 685-694. Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1991). Priming contour-deleted images: Evidence for

intermediate representations in visual object recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 23, 393-419.

Biederman, I. (1991). Dumb mechanisms doing smart things. Review of B. Cohen & V.

Henn (Eds.) Representation of Three-Dimensional Space in the Vestibular, Oculomotor, and Visual Systems: A Symposium of the Barany Society, Contemporary Psychology, 35, 979-980.

York, J. L., & Biederman, I. (1990). Effects of age and sex on reciprocal tapping

performance. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 71, 675-684. Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1990). Dynamic Binding: A Basis for the

Representation of Shape by Neural Networks. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 614-621. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Biederman, I. (1990). Human Visual Pattern Recognition of Medical Images.

Proceedings of the IV Meeting of the SPIE Society for Medical Imaging, Pp. 2-7. SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering: Bellingham, WA.


Biederman, I. (1990). Higher level vision. In D. N. Osherson, S. Kosslyn, & J.

Hollerbach (Eds). An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Visual Cognition and Action, Volume 2, Pp. 41-72. Cambridge, MA: MIT.

Biederman, I. (1989). The uncertain case for cross cultural effects in pictorial object

recognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 12, 74-75. Biederman, I. (1989). Algorithms for Vision. Review of W. Richards & S. Ullman (Eds.)

Image Understanding, 1985-86. Contemporary Psychology, 34, 7-8. Hummel, J. E., Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P. C., & Hilton, H. J. (1988). From image

edges to geons: A connectionist approach. In D. Touretzky, G. Hinton, & T. Sejnowski (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School. Pp. 462-471. San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

Biederman, I. (1988). Real-time human image understanding in pilot performance

models. In J. I. Elkind, S. K. Card, J. Hochberg, & B. M. Huey (Eds.) Human Performance Models for Computer-Aided Engineering. Pp. 126-143. Washington: National Academy Press. Reissued, Academic Press, 1990.

Biederman, I., Rosenfeld, A., & Flattau, P. E. (1988). Visual processing issues in

computer-aided target recognition. National Research Council, Committee on Vision Report.

Biederman, I., Blickle, T. W., Ju, G., Hilton, H. J., & Hummel, J. E. (1988). Empirical

analyses and connectionist modeling of real-time human image understanding. Pp. 251-256. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Biederman, I. (1988). Aspects and Extensions of a Theory of Human Image

Understanding. In Z. Pylyshyn, (Ed.) Computational Processes in Human Vision. Pp. 370-428. New York: Ablex.

Biederman, I., Blickle, T. W., Teitelbaum, R. C., Klatsky, G. J., & Mezzanotte, R. J.

(1988). Object identification in nonscene displays. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14, 456-467.

York, J. L., & Biederman, I. (1988). Motor performance in detoxified alcoholics.

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 12, 119-124. Biederman, I. (1988). Review of Visual Cognition by S. Pinker (Ed.). American Journal

of Psychology, 101, 146-148. Biederman, I., & Ju, G. (1988). Surface vs. Edge-Based Determinants of Visual

Recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 20, 38-64.


Biederman, I., & Shiffrar, M. (1987). Sexing day-old chicks: A case study and expert systems analysis of a difficult perceptual learning task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 13, 640-645.

Biederman, I. (1987). Matching Image Edges to Object Memory. In Proceedings of the

First International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE Computer Society, 384-392. Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image

Understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147. Ju, G., & Biederman, I. (1986). The perception of objects depicted by color or line

drawings. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 30, 297-300. Blickle, T. W., & Biederman, I. (1986). Perceiving degraded objects. Proceedings of the

Human Factors Society, 30, 310-305. Biederman, I. (1986). Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Pattern

Recognition. In G. H. Bower (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, Vol. 21 (pp. 1-54). New York: Academic Press.

Walters, D. H., Biederman, I., & Weisstein, N. (1983). The combination of spatial

frequency and orientation is not effortlessly perceived. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 125. Human and Machine. Vision II. (pp. 13-57). Orlando, Fl.: Academic Press.

Biederman, I., Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J. (1983). Scene perception: A

failure to find a benefit of expectancy or familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning And Memory, 9, 411-429.

Biederman, I. (1982). Review of Eye Movements: Cognition and Visual Perception.

American Journal of Psychology, 95, 515-517. Biederman, I. (1982). Human information processing of real-world scenes. U. S. Army

Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Technical Report, August. Biederman, I., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Rabinowitz, J. C. (1982). Scene perception:

Detecting and judging objects undergoing relational violations. Cognitive Psychology, l4, l43-l77.

Biederman, I. (l982). Do background depth gradients facilitate object identification?

Perception, l0, 573-578. Klatsky, G. J., Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. (198l). Mandatory

processing of the background in the detection of objects in scenes. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 25, 272-276.

Biederman, I., Mezzanotte, R. J., Rabinowitz, J. C., Francolini, C. M., & Plude, D. (l98l).

Detecting the unexpected in photointerpretation. Human Factors, 23, l53-l64.


Biederman, I. (1981). On the semantics of a glance at a scene. In M. Kubovy & J. R.

Pomerantz (Eds.) Perceptual Organization. (Chapter8, pp. 213-263). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kreigman, D. H., & Biederman, I. (1980). How many letters in Bidwell's Ghost?: An

investigation of the upper limits of full report from a brief visual stimulus. Perception & Psychophysics, 28(1), 82-84. [Featured in the Amateur Scientist section of Scientific American (January 1985).] PMID: 7413415.

Teitelbaum, R. C., & Biederman, I. (1979). Perceiving real-world scenes: The role of a

prior glance. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 23, 456-460. Moore, T. E., & Biederman, I. (1979). The recognition of ungrammaticality: Multiple

violations. Cognition, 7, 285-299. Biederman, I., & Tsao, Y.-C. (1979). On processing Chinese ideographs and English

words: Some implications from Stroop-test results. Cognitive Psychology, 11, l25-l32.

Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. (1978). Why are we able to see

real-world scenes so quickly? An investigation of the role of expectancy and familiarity. Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 22, 378-382.

Biederman, I. (1977). On processing information from a glance at a scene. Some

implications for a syntax and semantics of visual processing. In S. Treu (Ed). User-Oriented Design of Interactive Graphics Systems. New York: ACM.

Spector, A., & Biederman, I. (l976). Mental set and shift revisited. American Journal of

Psychology, 89, 669-679. King, M., Meyer, G. E., Tangney, J., & Biederman, I. (1976). Shape constancy and a

perceptual bias towards symmetry. Perception & Psychophysics, 19, 129-l36. Biederman, I., & Morris, D. F. (1975). Methodology for reducing the hazardous effects

of highway features and roadside objects: Behavioral Studies of Decision Sight Distances. Calspan Technical Report Project ZR-5564-V.

Biederman, I., Rabinowitz J., Glass, A. L., & Stacy, E. W., Jr. (1974). On the

information extracted from a glance at a scene. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 103, 597-600.

Biederman, I. (1974). Bottlenecks of the mind: Review of S. W. Keele's Attention and

Human Performance. Contemporary Psychology, 19, 435-436. Biederman, I., & Stacy, E. W. Jr. (1974). Stimulus probability versus stimulus set size

as determinants of memory scanning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 102, 1100-1107.


Biederman, I. (1973). How do we make sense of what we see? Insight, 7, 3. Biederman, I. (1973). Mental set and mental arithmetic. Memory & Cognition, 1, 383-

386. Biederman, I., Glass, A. L., & Stacy, E. W., Jr. (1973). Searching for objects in real-

world scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 97, 22-27. Biederman, I. (1972). Perceiving real-world scenes. Science, 177, 77-80. (Cover

story. Discussed on CBS Science Reports.) Biederman, I. (1972). Human performance in contingent information processing tasks.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 93, 219-238. Biederman, I., & Kaplan, R. (1970). Stimulus discriminability and S-R compatibility:

Evidence for independent effects in choice reaction time. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 86, 434-439.

Biederman, I., & Checkosky, S. F. (1970). Processing redundant information. Journal

of Experimental Psychology, 83, 486-490. Biederman, I., & Zachary, R. (1970). Stimulus versus response probability effects in

choice reaction time. Perception & Psychophysics, 7, 189-192. Biederman, I. (1970). Testing Negro intelligence: Comments on Jensen. The

Humanist, 30, 36. Biederman, I. (1968). (U) Human factors section in Report on Project SERPENT:

Support of Joint Task Force Two--Seven Series Tests. Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory Report No. UM-2593-D-1, November.

Biederman, I., Dumas, J. S., & Lachman, R. (1968). The effects of stimulus uncertainty

and S-R transitional probability on paired-associate learning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 7, 864-868.

Fitts, P. M., & Biederman, I. (1965). S-R Compatibility and information reduction.

Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 408-412. Shapiro, A., Goodenough, D. R., Biederman, I, & Slesser, I. (1964). Dream recall and

the physiology of sleep. Journal of Applied Physiology, 19, 778-783. Fehrer, E., & Biederman, I. (1962). A comparison of reaction time and verbal report in

the detection of masked stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 126-130. INVITED PRESENTATIONS and NAMED LECTURES (Excluding departmental colloquia and conference presentations)


Biederman, I. (2017). Aesthetics and the Brain. Keynote Address to the ECVP Satellite Meeting on Visual Science of Art and Conference, Berlin, Germany. August.

Biederman, I. (2017). Bosco Tjan: An Engineer in Psychologists Clothing. Invited

presentation at a Special Symposium: In Fondest memory of Bosco Tjan. Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. May

Biederman, I. (2016). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Scene Recognition. Invited presentation at the Scene Understanding Workshop, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas, NV. June.

Biederman, I. (2015). The Neural Basis of Face and Object Representations. Invited

address presented at the International Conference of Perceptual Organization, York University, Center for Vision Research, Toronto, CA. June.

Biederman, I. (2014). The Neural Basis of Shape Recognition. Invited address

presented at the Rovereto (Italy) Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects. May. Biederman, I. (2014). Aesthetics and the Brain. Invited address Los Angeles Country

Museum of Art. March, 2014. Invited to give short course on Visual Object Recognition, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2013 (Declined.) Biederman, I. (2013). Kansas State University Provost’s Lecture. Perceptual Pleasure

and the Brain. April. Biederman, I. (2012). The Neural Basis of Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure. Invited

paper presented at a Symposium Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel. October. Biederman, I. (2012). The Neural Coding of Parts, Relations, and Attributes in Object

Recognition. Invited Keynote Address to European Conference on Computer Vision, Workshop on Parts and Attributes, Florence Italy. October.

Biederman, I. (2011). The Neuroscience and Psychophysics of Fine Grained Visual

Categorization. Invited presentation at the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Workshop on Fine Grained Visual Categorization. Colorado, Springs, CO. June.

Biederman, I. (2011). The Neural Basis of Face Recognition. Invited presentation at the

USC Vision Symposium. USC. April. Biederman, I. (2011). Neural and Computational Bases of Face Recognition. Invited

presentation at the IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition. Santa Barbara, CA. March.


Biederman, I. (2010). Aesthetics and the Brain. Invited presentation at a symposium on Aesthetic Science: Psychophysical and Neuroscientific Approaches, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.

Biederman, I. (2009). Taught short course in Cognitive Neuroscience (Four lectures:

Neural Basis of Shape Recognition I and II, Face Recognition, Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure and Consciousness), Central European University, Budapest, June.

Biederman, I. (2009). The Neural Basis of Aesthetics. Invited presentation at a

Symposium on Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience. Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, May.

Biederman, I. (2009). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Keynote Address. Salk

Institute Retreat, La Jolla, CA. [Can be viewed at: http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/kavli-institute-for-brain-and-mind-symposium/irving-biederman

Biederman, I. (2009). The Neural Basis of Shape Recognition. Invited Helmholtz Club

Lecture. Irvine, CA. Biederman, I. (2008). The Neural Basis of Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure: What

Controls the 95% of our lives when we are not concerned about staying alive. Invited presentation at a Conference on Biological Origins of Human Group Behavior, California Institute of Technology. November.

Biederman, I. (2008). Neural Evidence for the Coding of Explicit Relations. Invited

presentation at a Conference sponsored by the Fyssen Foundation on “From objects to categories: Visual categorization in big brains, small brains and machines,” St. Germain-en-Laye, France. October.

Biederman, I. (2008). The Neural Basis of Shape Recognition. Invited presentation at

the “First International Workshop on Shape Perception in Human and Computer Vision,” Marseille, France. October.

Biederman, I. (2008). The Neural Basis of Shape (Parts) Recognition. Invited

presentation at a Symposium on Object Recognition at the Meetings of the British Experimental Psychology Society, Liverpool, U.K., July.

Biederman, I. (2008). Scene Perception. Invited keynote presentation at the Third

Annual Scene Understanding Symposium, MIT, Feb. Biederman, I. (2007). Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain. Invited plenary address at

the 7th Conference on Emotion and Motivation, Hammamet. Tunesia, October. Biederman, I. (2007). Neural Evidence for Structural Descriptions. Invited address at

the IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Object Categorization. Rio de Janeiro, October.


Biederman, I. (2007). The Neural Basis of Face Recognition. Invited address at a

Conference on Horizons of Vision Research, California State University, Long Beach. April.

Biederman, I. (2007). Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure and the Brain. Invited

address at a Conference on Horizons of Vision Research, California State University, Long Beach. April.

Biederman, I. (2007). The Neural Basis of Shape (Parts) Recognition. Invited address

at the 2007 Vision Train Winter School, Les Houches, France. March. Biederman, I. (2007). Face Recognition. Invited address at the 2007 Vision Train

Winter School, Les Houches, France. March. Biederman, I. (2007). Shape Recognition and the Brain. Invited address at the Institute

of Cognitive Neuroscience, Taipei. March. Biederman, I. (2007). Minimal Scenes, Maximal Challenges. Invited presentation at a

Symposium on Natural Scene Understanding: Statistics, Recognition, and Representation. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Biederman, I. (2006). The Neural Basis of Face Recognition. Invited International

Speaker at a Symposium on Brains, Faces, and Beliefs. Cardiff University, September.

Biederman, I. (2006). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Invited paper at the 13th Joint Symposium on Neural computation. Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA. May. Biederman, I. (2006). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Invited presentation at

a symposium on Object Recognition 20 Years Later. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. May.

Biederman, I. (2006). The Neural Basis of Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure. The

Whitehead Lecture. University of London, Goldsmiths College. March. Biederman, I. (2005). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Invited plenary address

at the Conference on Early Vision: Computational and Biological, Bertinoro, Italy. June.

Biederman, I. (2005). The neural representation of shape in humans and macaques.

Invited presentation at the Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta. April. Biederman, I. (2004). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Invited presentation at

a Symposium on The Representation of Shape. International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, August.


Biederman, I. (2004). Geons and Gestalts. Invited presentation at a Symposium on The Origin and Present Status of Gestalt Psychology. International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, August.

Biederman, I. (2004). The representation of object shape in macaque inferior temporal

cortex and human LOC. Invited address at a Conference on Object Recognition, Attention, and Action. Centre of Excellence, Kyoto University. August.

Biederman, I., Kayaert, G., & Vogels, R. (2004). The representation of object shape in

macaque inferior temporal cortex. Invited paper at the 11th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, May.

Biederman, I. (2003). A Neural Account of Spontaneous Visual Selection. Invited paper

presented at a Symposium on the Visual Cognition of Natural Scenes at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada. November.

Biederman, I. (2003) A neurocomputational theory of spontaneous attentional selection.

Featured speaker at the Annual Japanese Workshop on Attention and Cognition. Tokyo, August.

Biederman, I. (2003). The neural basis of object recognition. Invited plenary address at

the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychological Association, Tokyo, August. Vogels, R., Biederman, I., & Kayaert, G. (2003). The neural coding of object

recognition in humans and macaques. Invited paper presented at a Meeting of the Human Frontiers Foundation, Oxford, UK. (June.)

Biederman, I. (2002). Shape recognition by human observers. Invited presentation at

the 4th Annual MURI Review. Los Angeles, CA. Sept.

Biederman, I., & Mangini, M. (2002). A neurocomputational account of face recognition. Invited presentation at a Conference on The Legacy of Gaetano Kanizsa in Cognitive Science, Bolzano, Italy. June.

Biederman, I. (2002). A Neurocomputational Hypothesis of Perceptual and Cognitive

Pleasure. Invited paper presented at the 9th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, May, 2002. http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jsnc/program.html

Biederman, I. (2001). Shape recognition and consciousness in mind and brain. Invited

address at the Meetings of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, CA. August.

Biederman, I. (2001). The neural basis of object constancy and object recognition.

Invited paper presented at the Stockholm (Rosen on) Workshop on Computational Vision. Rösenon, Sweden. July.


Biederman, I. (2001). The neural basis of object constancy. Invited paper presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Neural Computation. The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, May.

Biederman, I. (2001). Shape recognition and consciousness in mind and brain. Invited

address for the 2nd Annual Grawemeyer Award in Psychology. Louisville, KY, April. Biederman, I. (2000). Neural and psychophysical bases of shape recognition. Invited

presentation at a Workshop on Image Analysis and High Level Vision sponsored by the University of Minnesota Institute of Mathematical Analysis, Minneapolis, Nov.

Biederman, I. (2000). Shape recognition in mind and brain. Invited address at a

symposium on object recognition at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, July.

Biederman, I. (2000). Human face and object recognition in vertebrates (man and

macaque). Invited paper presented at a Workshop on Recognition of Visual Patterns and Landmarks by Insects. Delmenhorst, Germany, March.

Biederman, I. (1999). An Evaluation of "View-Based" vs. Geon Structural Descriptions

as Alternative Accounts of Visual Object Recognition. Invited paper presented at the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Generic Object Recognition, Corfu Greece, September.

Biederman, I. (1999). Aiding image analysts through RSVP training and displays.

Invited presentation at a Meeting of Neuroscience Inspired Target Recognition, The Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla, CA. September

Biederman, I. (1999). Recognizing Depth-Rotated Objects: A Review of Recent

Research and Theory. Invited paper at Workshop on Visual Object Recognition by Humans and Machines, Bad Homburg, Germany, May.

Biederman, I. (1998). The neurocomputational basis of face and object recognition.

Invited presentation at the Stockholm Workshop on Computational Vision, Rosenön, August 4-7, 1998.

Biederman, I. (1997). Why separate fMRI loci for the recognition of faces and objects?

Invited presentation at a Symposium on Neural Imaging, University of Michigan, October.

Biederman, I. (1997). Invited seminar presented at the NATO Advanced Study

Institute (ASI) on 'Face Recognition: From Theory to Applications, Stirling, Scotland, UK, June 23-July 4.

Biederman, I. (1996). Applied aspects of shape recognition research. Invited address

presented at the Attention & Performance Conference, Haifa, Israel, July. Biederman, I. (1996). Perceiving function. Invited address presented at the Computer

Vision Symposium. San Francisco, CA, June.


Biederman, I. (1996). A neural computational account of real-time object and face

recognition. Invited paper presented to a Symposium on Cognition and Neuroscience. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May.

O'Kane, B. L., Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Kalocsai, P. (1996). Modeling

parameters for target identification: Spatial filters vs. critical features. Invited presentation at the IRIS conference, Monterey, CA.

Biederman, I. (1995). Recognition of Faces and Objects: Speculations on a General

Theory of Shape Recognition. Invited presentation to the Workshop on Face and Object Recognition, Cardiff, Wales, Oct.

Biederman, I. (1995). A neural-computational theory of perceptual and cognitive

pleasure. Invited address to the Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society, Cardiff, Wales. Oct.

Biederman, I. (1995). Binding and object recognition. Invited paper presented at a

Symposium on Phenomena and Architectures of Cognitive Dynamics. Leipzig, Germany, June.

Biederman, I., & Kalocsai, P. (1995). The psychophysics of face recognition. Invited paper at the International Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition. Zurich, Switzerland, June. Biederman, I. (1995). From image edges to geons to viewpoint-invariant object

representations. Invited address (featured speaker) presented to the Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, January.

Biederman, I. (1995). Invited panelist. Discussion of 3D object representation in the

brain. ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition '95, Kansai, Japan, January. Biederman, I. (1995). Recognition of faces and objects: implications for a general

theory of shape recognition. Invited presentation at the ATR Symposium on Face and Object Recognition '95, Kansai, Japan, January.

Biederman, I., & Hummel, J. E. (1994). Real-time shape recognition: Implications for

temporal asynchrony as an account of the binding problem. Invited paper presented at a symposium on Temporal Coding in the Brain at the 17th Annual Meeting of the European Neuroscience Association, Vienna, Austria, Sept.

Biederman, I. (1994). Modeling the Recognition of Thermal Images. Invited

presentation at the U.S. Army Night Vision and Electro Optical Device Laboratory, Ft. Belvoir, VA. April.

Biederman, I. (1994). Shape recognition in Mind and Brain. Invited paper at a

Symposium on Cortex and Object Recognition, Syracuse University, April.


O'Kane, B. L., & Biederman, I. (1994). Modeling thermal target vehicle identification: Beyond resolution and noise. Invited Paper at the Proceedings of the Infrared Information Symposium for Passive Sensors. Albuquerque, NM: March 14-16.

Biederman, I. (1994). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Invited presentation at

a Symposium on Cerebral Cortex and Object Perception. Jerusalem, Israel. March. Biederman, I. (1994). Shape Recognition in Mind and Brain. Invited address to a

special meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, Tokyo, March. Biederman, I. (1993). Grounding Mental Symbols in Object Images. Invited paper

presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D. C., November.

Biederman, I. (1993). Object recognition in mind, brain, and machine. Invited address

to the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Irish Association of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, Belfast, Northern Ireland, September.

Biederman, I. (1993). Can a successful face recognizer serve as a model of entry level

object recognition? Paper presented at the International Conference on Face Processing, Cardiff, Wales, September.

Biederman, I. (1993). Geon theory as an account of shape recognition in mind, brain,

and machine. Invited address presented to the British Machine Vision Association, Surrey University, Guildford, U.K. September.

Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P. C., Cooper, E. E., Fiser, J., & Hummel, J. E. (1993)

Recognition-by-Geons: Current Progress and Current Challenges. Invited paper presented at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Savoie, France, September.

Biederman, I. (1993). The neural basis of shape recognition. Invited paper presented

at a Symposium of Parallel Processing in the Nervous System, Toronto, Canada, July.

Biederman, I. (1993). Visual object recognition in mind and brain. Invited paper

presented at a Conference on Object Representation in Visual and Haptic System, Madrid, Spain. May.

Biederman, I. (1993). Shape recognition in mind and brain. The William F. Prokasy

Lecture at The University of Utah. May. Biederman, I. (1992). Shape Recognition in Mind, Brain, and Machine. Invited address

presented at Dedication of Computer Science Building, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, October.


Biederman, I. (1992). Shape Recognition in Mind and Brain. Invited paper presented at the National Research Council's Committee on Vision Symposium on Vision and Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, Washington, D. C., October.

Biederman, I. (1992). Shape Recognition in Mind and Brain. Invited paper presented

at a Workshop on Pattern Organization and Object Recognition, Brussels, Belgium, September,

Biederman, I. (1992). Challenges to Machine Vision. Invited paper presented to a

Workshop on Active Vision, Ruzinagaard, Denmark, August. Biederman, I. (1992). Human Image Understanding. Invited paper presented at the

Meetings of the International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium, August. Biederman, I. (1992). Reverse Engineering the Psychology of Shape Recognition.

Invited paper presented at the Office of Naval Research Workshop on Intermediate and Higher Level Vision. Laguna Beach, CA. March.

Biederman, I. (1992). Shape recognition in Mind and Brain. Invited paper presented to

the Helmholtz Society, Irvine, California, February, 1992. Biederman, I. (1992). The neural basis of shape recognition. Invited paper presented

at the Seminar on Cognitive Neuroscience at the Meetings of the AAAS, Chicago, February, 1992.

Biederman, I. (1991). Shape recognition in mind, brain, and machine. Invited paper

presented at the NSF-CONACYT sponsored Symposium on Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A Meeting Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence, Jalapa, Mexico, December.

Biederman, I. (1991). How an account of Shape Recognition can be Achieved by a

Neural Network that Solves the Binding Problem through Phase Locking. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Rhythmic Oscillations in Cortex: Their Form and Function, Tucson, April.

Biederman, I. (1990) Visual Image Understanding. The Fourth Annual Fern Forman

Fisher Lecture, University of Kansas, November. Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1990). Binding invariant shape descriptors: A neural

net architecture for structural description and object recognition. Invited presentation at a Workshop on Object and Scene Perception. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. September.

Biederman, I, & Cooper, E. E. (1990). Intermediate, invariant representations mediate

visual object recognition. Invited presentation at a Workshop on Object and Scene Perception. University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. September


Biederman, I. (1990). Human Visual Pattern Recognition. Invited address at the Meetings of the SPIE Society for Medical Imaging. Newport Beach, CA. February.

Biederman, I. (1990). Synchrony of firing in neural net architectures: A common

source for perceptual organization and attentional limitations? Invited paper at the National Research Council Committee of Vision Conference on Visual search: Segmentation, Identification, and Attention. Newport Beach, CA, January 19-21.

Biederman, I. (1989). What is there left to learn from the existence proof for 3D pattern

recognition? Invited presentation at the IEEE Workshop on the Interpretation of 3D Scenes. Austin, TX., November.

Biederman, I. (1989). Volumetric models for object recognition: Some implications for

theories of extrastriate processing. Invited paper at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Workshop on Extrastriate Visual Computation. Montreal, June 13-14.

Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., and Hilton, H. J. (1989). Priming with contour-deleted

images. Invited presentation at the Symposium on Issues in Object Recognition: Perception, Attention, and Memory presented at the First Meeting of the American Psychological Society, Alexandria, VA. June 12, 1989.

Biederman, I. (1989). Viewpoint invariant primitives as a basis for human object

recognition. Invited presentation at a Conference on Vision and Three-Dimensional Representation. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: May.

Biederman, I. (1989). Pattern goodness and pattern recognition. Invited presentation

at a Conference on the Perception of Structure. Yale University, May. Biederman, I. (1988). Real-time human image understanding. Invited address to the

XXIV International Congress of Psychology. Sydney, Australia: August. Biederman, I., Blickle, T. W., Ju, G., Hilton, H. J., & Hummel, J. E. (1988). Empirical

analyses and connectionist modeling of real-time human image understanding. Invited presentation at the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Montreal, Canada, August.

Biederman, I. (1988). Visual object recognition. Invited presentation at the James S.

McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience. Harvard University: June.

Biederman, I. (1988). Human image understanding. Invited address to the Meetings of

the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.: April. Biederman, I. (1988). Geons: Visual Primitives for Human Image Understanding.

Invited paper presented at the Meeting for Visual Form and Motion Perception: Psychophysics, Computation, and Neural Networks. Boston, Massachusetts: March.


Biederman, I. (1988). Invariant Visual Primitives for Object Recognition. Invited address to the AAAS Symposium on High-Level Vision; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Object Recognition. Boston, Massachusetts: February.

Biederman, I. (1988). A psychologist looks at belief in the paranormal. Invited address

to the Minnesota Skeptics. Minneapolis, MN.: January. Biederman, I. (1988). Computational and empirical analyses of human image

understanding. Invited address to the Twin Cities Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence. Minneapolis, MN.: January.

Biederman, I. (1987). Human image understanding. Invited paper to the Air Force

Review of Vision Research. Annapolis, MD.: December. Biederman, I. (1987). Real-time human image understanding and pilot performance

models. Invited presentation to the NASA-NRC Working Group on Pilot Performance Models. Washington, D. C.: Dec.

Biederman, I. (1987). Perceptual and attentional factors in the processing of

multisensor displays. Invited address to the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Committee on Vision and U. S. Army Workshop on human Processing of Computer Aided Target Images. Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland: July.

Biederman, I. (1987). Visual cognition and aquatic safety. Invited address to the

Aquatic Injury Safety Group Seminar. Ft. Lauderdale, Fl.: May. Biederman, I. (1987). Visual Object Recognition. Invited address presented at the First

Queens University Conference on Vision, Canada: April. Biederman, I. Visual perception and performance in space: Some methodological and

empirical problems. Invited paper at the Exploratory Meeting on Changes in Vision During Long-Term Space Flight. NASA Ames (California): June, 1986.

Biederman, I. Image Interpretation. Invited address to the Human Perception and

Performance Workshop for System Designers, Research Institute, University of Dayton, June, 1986.

Biederman, I. Computational Approaches to Vision. Session Chair and Introducer.

Symposium on New Frontiers in Vision, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.: April, 1986.

Biederman, I. Cognitive Science. Invited address to Air Force Office of Scientific

Research, Research Initiatives Review Board, March, 1986. Biederman, I. Human Image Understanding. Invited address to the LOVE Conference

(Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, February, 1986.


Biederman, I. Recognition-by-Components: Explorations of image interpretation.

Invited address at the Workshop for Human and Machine Vision, International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada: August, 1984.

Biederman, I. Recognition-by-Components: A theory of image interpretation. Paper

presented at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Review of Basic Research in Visual Information Processing, Sarasota, Florida: May, 1984.

Biederman, I. Flowcharting the information processing operations of the human brain:

Implications for effective nuclear control room design and training. Invited address at the Meetings of the American Nuclear Society, Rochester, New York: November, 1982.

Biederman, I. The role of semantic relations in the perceptual organization of real-world

scenes. Invited paper to a conference on Perceptual Organization. Washington, D. C.: November, l977.

Biederman, I. Implications of a psychology of scene perception for the design of

computer driven displays. Invited address of the NSF sponsored conference on "User-Oriented Design of Interactive Graphics Systems." Pittsburgh, PA.: October,l976.

Biederman, I. A glance at a scene. Invited paper presented at LOVE (Lake Ontario

Visionary Establishment) Conference. Niagara Falls, Ontario: March, l974. PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS Biederman, I., Meschke, E. X., Maarek, R., Margalit, E., & Herald, S. B. (2018). The

perceptual deficit in congenital prosopagnosia. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Meschke, E. X., Hacker, C., & Biederman, I. (2018). How many faces can we recognize?

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Hacker, C. M., Meschke, E. X., & Biederman, I. (2018). Recognition of stretched faces.

Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Hacker, C., Meschke, E. X., & Biederman, I. (2018). Matching

depth-rotated faces at varying degrees of physical similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Shilowich, B. E., & Biederman, I. (2018). Voice imagination priming of voice recognition.

Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Amsterdam Netherlands. May.


Shilowich, B. E., & Biederman, I. (2017). Detecting the prevalence of developmental phonagnosia. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Vancouver, Canada. Nov.

Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., S., Meschke, E. X., Shilowich, B. E., Juarez, J.

J., Hacker, C. M., Seamans, T. J., and Herald, S. B. (2017). What is the perceptual deficit in congenital prosopagnosia? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Meschke, E. M., Hacker, C. M., Juarez, J. J., Maarek, R. S., Biederman, I. (2017) Can

Familiar Faces be Negatively Detected at RSVP Rates? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Meschke, E.X., Hacker, C.M., Juarez, J.J., Maarek, R.S., & Biederman, I. (2017).

Detecting Unspecified Familiar Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Biederman, I. (2017). What is the nature of the perceptual deficit in congenital

prosopagnosia? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Vanderbilt, Univ., Nashville, TN. March

Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Tjan, B., & Shah, M. P. (2016). What is actually affected by

the scrambling of objects when localizing LOC? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Irawan, I., Margalit, E., Herald, S. B., & Biederman, I. (2016). Vertices are effective in

grouping (and ungrouping). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Margalit, E., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2016). Impaired face and non-face discrimination

by Developmental prosopagnosics. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Amir, O., & Biederman, I. (2015). The Neural Genesis of a Joke. Talk presented at the

Annual Meeting of the International Society for Humor Studies, Oakland, CA. July. ** Winner of Best Student Presentation Award

Herald, S. B., Shah, M. P., Xiaokun, X., Biederman, I., Juarez, J. J. (2015). A

neurocompational account of the face offset effect. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Biederman, I., Herald, S. B., Xu, X., Amir, O., Shilowich, B., & Margalit, E. (2015).

Phonagnosia, a Voice Homologue to Prosopagnosia. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Shah, M. P., Biederman, I., Tjan, B., Keller, B., Brenner, R., & Shilowitz, B. (2015). Is

LOC sensitive to object familiarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.


Biederman, I., & Amir, O. (2014). The real-time neural genesis of a punchline. Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society. Long Beach, Ca. November.

Keller, B., Shah, M., Brenner, R., Tjan, B., & Biederman, I. (2014). Lateral occipital

complex responds to object familiarity. Poster presented at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory. Long Beach, CA. November.

Shilowich, B., & Biederman, I. (2014). An estimate of the incidence of developmental

phonagnosia. Poster presented at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory. Long Beach, CA. November.

Herald, S. B., Xu, X., Biederman, I., Amir, O., Shilowich, B. E. (2014). Phonagnosia: A

Voice Homologue to Prosopagnosia. Presentation at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory. Long Beach, CA. November.

Shah, M. P., Xu, X., Herald, S. B., Biederman, I. (2014). Face Configural Effects: A

Neurocomputational Account. Poster presented at the Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory. Long Beach, CA. November.

Amir, O. & Biederman, I. (2014). The Neural Genesis of a Joke. Poster presented at the

Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, November. Biederman, I., Xu, X., Shah, M. P., & Herald, S. B. (2014). An Account of the Face

Configural Effect. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Amir, O., & Biederman, I. (2014). The Claim that Pre-School Children are Insensitive to

Nonaccidental vs. Metric Shape Properties Challenged by Biologically-Based Shape Scaling. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Herald, S. B., Shah, M. S., Amir, O., & Biederman, I. (2014). Greater sensitivity to

nonaccidental than metric shape properties in preschool children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Pete Beach, Fl. May.

Biederman, I., Xu, X., Herald, S. B., Shilowich, B. E., Amir, O., & Allen, N. E. (2013)

Developmental Phonagnosia implicates a neural correlate for perceiving speaker identity. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience, San Diego, November.

Prescott, C., Xu, X., Lyter, D., Lapha, S., Mitchell, L., Kaiser, A., & Biederman, I. (2013).

Applying Visual Recognition Software to Yearbook Photographs to Assign Zygosity of Twin Pairs in Project TALENT. Poster presented at the 43rd Meeting of the Behavior Genetics Association, Marseilles, France. (June).

Biederman, I., Xu, X., & Shah, M. P. (2013). An account of the face configural effect.

Paper presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Fl. May.


Xu, X., Shah, M. P., & Biederman, I. (2013). Coding of visual stimuli for size and

animacy. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, Fl. May.

Amir, O., Biederman, I., Xu, X., & Wang, J. (2013). Neural correlates of mirth. Poster

Presented at the 13th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. May.

Biederman, I., & Xu, X. (2012). The neurocomputational basis of some visual configural

effects. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Configural processing Consortium. Minneapolis, MN, Nov.

Kim, J.G., & Biederman, I. (2012). Greater modulation of LO responses to changes in

nonaccidental than metric relations between simple shapes. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. May.

Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2012). Face detection deficits in prosopagnosia assessed by

eye-movements and detection thresholds. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. May.

Amir, O., Biederman, I., Xu, X. & Wang, Z. (2012). The Neural Basis for the Pleasure of

Humor and Insight. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroscience, New-Orleans, LA. Nov.

Biederman, I. (2012). The Neural Correlates of Between-Part and Between-Object

Relations. Paper presented at the Annual Summer Interdisciplinary Conference (ASIC). Cala Gonone, Sardinia, Italy. June.

Biederman, I., Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Kim, J. G. (2012). The Neural

Correlates of Between-Part and Between-Object Relations. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Houston, TX, April.

Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2012). Face detection deficits in prosopagnosia assessed by

eye-movements and detection thresholds. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL. May.

Amir, O., Biederman, I. & Hayworth, K.J. (2012). The markedly greater sensitivity to

nonaccidental vs. metric shape properties is not reflected in HMAX calculation of shape similarity. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Kim, J.G., Biederman, I. & Juan, C.H. (2011). Where and when do objects become

scenes? Talk presented at the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision, Hong Kong, China. August.

Biederman, I., Kim, J.G., & Juan, C.H. (2011). The benefit of scene-like interactions on

object identification arises in LO rather than being a consequence of parietal attentional modulation. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.


May. Kim, J.G., Biederman, I. & Amir, O. (2011). Greater sensitivity to categorical than metric

differences in relations. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. May.

Xu, X., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2011) No recovery of function for a specific

deficit in individuating faces 40 years after a lesion in the ventral occipito-temporal cortices at age five. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. May.

Amir, O., Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2011). The spontaneous appeal by naïve subjects to

nonaccidental properties when distinguishing among highly similar members of subspecies of birds closely resembles descriptions produced by experts. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. May.

Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2011). The medial axis structures of novel objects are

spontaneously perceived despite variability in the objects' orientations and component part shapes. Talk presented at the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL. May.

Biederman, I. (2011). The Neural Basis of Perceptual and Cognitive Pleasure. Paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Seattle, WA. April.

Biederman, I. (2010). Aesthetics and the Brain. Invited presentation at a symposium

on Aesthetic Science: Psychophysical and Neuroscientific Approaches, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis. November

Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). Voxels in LO distinguish objects with different

arrangements of the same component parts. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA.

Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). The coding of object interactions in the lateral occipital

complex. Talk presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego, CA. Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). Lateral occipital cortex represents axis

structure. Presented at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping meeting. July. Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). The neural coding of relations between objects in

scenes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Barcelona, Spain. July.

Hayworth, K.J., Lescroart, M.D., & Biederman, I. (2010). The neural representation of

spatial relationships by anatomical binding. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.

Lescroart, M.D. & Biederman, I. (2010). LO-but not V1-preferentially encodes axis

structure. Presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.


Kim, J.G. & Biederman, I. (2010). When do objects become scenes? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.

Xu, X., & Biederman, I. (2010). Separate neural loci are sensitive to facial expression

and facial individuation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.

Amir, O., Wu, R., & Biederman, I. (2010). Adult shape preferences are evident in

infancy. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Vision Science Society, Naples, FL.

Raju, C., Varadarajan, K. M., Krishnamurthi, N., Xu, S., Biederman, I., & Kelly, T.

(2010). Cognitive object recognition system (CORS). Paper presented at SPIE, Orlando, Fl. May.

Amir, O., Hayworth, K. J., Biederman, I., Lescroart, M. D., Xu, X., & Kim, J. (2009). At

what stage in the human ventral pathway is the greater sensitivity to nonaccidental over metric properties first manifested? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):810, 810a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/810/, doi:10.1167/9.8.810. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Hayworth, K., Lescroart, M., Kim, J., & Biederman, I. (2009). Evidence for object file

encoding in the posterior Fusiform Gyrus (pFs) and the Intraparietal Sulcus (IPS) [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):798, 798a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/798/, doi:10.1167/9.8.798. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2009). Is there an object-centered

coordinate map in LOC? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):793, 793a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/793/, doi:10.1167/9.8.793. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Xu, X., Yue, X., Biederman, I., Kim, J., & Lescroart, M. (2009). Adaptation in FFA: Face

or person? [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 9(8):461, 461a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/461/, doi:10.1167/9.8.461. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Kim, J., & Biederman, I. (2009). Where do objects become scenes? [Abstract]. Journal

of Vision, 9(8):779, 779a, http://journalofvision.org/9/8/779/, doi:10.1167/9.8.779. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Biederman, I., Mangini, M. C., Yue, X., & Von der Malsburg, C. (2008). The

Neurocomputational Basis of Face Recognition. Paper read at the Meeting of the British Experimental Psychology, Society, Liverpool England. July.

Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2008). How translation invariant are

object representations in the human posterior fusiform gyrus? http://journalofvision.org/8/6/83/ Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.


Hayworth, K. J., Lescroart, M. D., & Biederman, I. (2008). Explicit relation coding in the lateral occipital complex. http://journalofvision.org/8/6/35/ Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Kim, J., Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2008). The release from

adaptation in LOC from viewing a sequence of two different objects: An effect of shape or semantics? http://journalofvision.org/8/6/34/ Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May.

Lescroart, M.D., Yue, X., Davidoff, J., & Biederman, I. (2007) A Cross-Cultural Study of

the Representation of Shape Dimensions. the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Long Beach, CA., November.

Kim, J. & Biederman, I. (2007). 17,000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth

shapes. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of Objects, Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM), Long Beach, CA., November.

Yue, X., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (2007). Predicting the psychophysical

discriminability of faces and other complex stimuli based on a measure of image similarity. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego.

Lescroart, M. D., Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2007). Evidence for relative position

coding in lateral occipital and posterior fusiform areas. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego.

Hayworth, K. J., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2007). Some tests of the standard model

[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/924/ Biederman, I., Lescroart, M. D., & Hayworth, K., J. (2007). Sensitivity to object-

centered relations in LOC [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/1030/.

Lescroart, M.D., Yue, X., Davidoff, J., Biederman, I. (2007). A Cross-Cultural Test of the

Independence of the Representation of Generalized-Cone Dimensions [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/926/.

Yue, X., Lescroart, M. D., Vessel, E., & Biederman, I. (2007). A Test of the Consistency

of Scene Preferences across Cultures. Journal of Vision http://journalofvision.org/7/9/924/

Biederman, I. (2006). The Neural Basis of Object Recognition. Paper presented at the

Interdisciplinary Conference. Andalsnes, Norway, June. Hayworth, K. J., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2006). A lateral occipital complex (LOC)

localizer with precisely matched local feature composition in intact and scrambled images. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/621/, doi:10.1167/6.6.621.


Lescroart, M. D., Yue, X., Hayworth, K., & Biederman, I. (2006). Laterality effects in the

LOC. Poster 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/54/

Yue, X., Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2006). The neural basis of preference for natural

scenes [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 6(6):474, 474a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/474/, doi:10.1167/6.6.474.

Nederhouser, M., Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2006). Predicting psychophysical similarity

of complex shapes from measures of physical similarity. http://journalofvision.org/6/6/320/

Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I., Davidoff, J., Yue, X., Kayaert, G., Vogels, R. (2005).

The representation of shape in individuals from a culture with limited contact with regular, simple artifacts. [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 5(8); 90, 90a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/90/, doi:10.1167/5.8.90.

Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2005). Differential fMRI activity produced by

variations in parts and relations during object perception. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. http://journalofvision.org/5/8/740/

Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2005). FMRIa to complementary, contour-deleted

images of objects. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May. http://journalofvision.org/5/8/741/

Yue, X., Tjan, B., & Biederman, I. (2005). Matching complementary faces and blobs in

the Gabor domain by novices, experts, and an ideal observer. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. May. http://journalofvision.org/5/8/980/

Biederman, I., & Hayworth, K. J. (2004). Neural fMRI signatures for variation in parts

and relations during object perception. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, October.

Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2004). Spatial content of faces may be critical for

individualizing faces. Poster presented at the 11th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, May.

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2004). Recognition of non face

objects, designed to require the same stimulus processing as that for faces, show only minimal effects of differences in contrast polarity or orientation direction. Poster presented at the 11th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, May.

Kayaert, G., Op de Beeck, H., Biederman, I., & Vogels, R. (2004). Shape-dependent

coding of macaque IT neurons. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.


Hayworth, K. J., & Biederman, I. (2004). Parts and relations are analyzable sources of shape variation: Evidence for structural descriptions. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., & Cohen, M. (2004). Parahippocampal fMRI activity is

modulated by scene type. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Wasserman, E. A., Lazareva, O., Gibson, B., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P., & Biederman, I.

(2004). Geons and bubbles: Object recognition by pigeons. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Greene, M. R., Russell, R., & Biederman, I. (2004). The N170 adapts only to shape—

not the pigmentation–of individual faces. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Yue, X., & Biederman, I. (2004). The sensitivity of faces to spatial content may be

partly based on the necessity to discriminate the metrics of smooth surfaces. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2004). Recognition of non face

objects, designed to require the same stimulus processing as that for faces, show only minimal effects of differences in contrast polarity or orientation direction. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May. http://journalofvision.org/4/8/439/

Russell, R., Sinha, P., Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I. (2004). The importance of

pigmentation for face recognition. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Biederman, I., Kayaert, G., & Vogels, R. (2004). Systematic investigation of shape

tuning in macaque IT. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl., May.

Wasserman, E., Lazareva, O., Gibson, B., Gosselin, F., Schyns, P., & Biederman, I.

(2004). Geons and Bubbles: Object recognition by pigeons [Abstract]. Journal of Vision ,4(8), 353a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/353/, doi:10.1167/4.8.353.

Biederman, I., Vogels, R., & Kayaert, G. (2003). Shape tuning in macaque inferior

temporal cortex. Paper presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, Canada. November.

Greene, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). The N170 adapts to individual,

attended faces. Paper presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada. November.


Russell, R., Nederhouser, M., & Biederman, I. (2003). The roles of shape and surface in face processing. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada. November.

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). Sizeable costs incurred from

contrast negation are unique to faces. Poster presented at the 11th Annual Workshop on Object Perception & Memory. Vancouver, Canada. November.

Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., & Cohen, M. S. (2003) How opioid activity may determine

spontaneous visual selection. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May).

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I, & Okada, K. (2003). Invariance to

contrast inversion when matching objects with face-like surface structure and pigmentation. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May). http://journalofvision.org/3/9/93/

Kayaert, G., Vogels, R., & Biederman, I. (2003). The effect of asymmetry and

complexity on the sensitivity of inferior temporal neurons to nonaccidental differences. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May).

Behizdeh, R., Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2003). Verifying objects in minimal

scenes. Journal of Vision, 3, 639a. Biederman, I., Vessel, E. A., & Greene, M. (2003). The grouping of contours into an L-

vertex depends on contrast polarity: Evidence for the incorporation of image statistics into mechanisms of perceptual grouping. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May). http://journalofvision.org/3/9/663/

Greene, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). Trying your best to ignore a face

does little to diminish the N170. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May). http://journalofvision.org/3/9/828/

Yue, Xiaomin, Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2003). A psychophysical investigation

of the other race effect in face recognition. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Visual Sciences Society. Sarasota, Fl. (May).

Biederman, I., & Vessel, E. A. (2002). A Neurocomputational Theory of Perceptual and

Cognitive Pleasure. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Kansas City. Nov.

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I, & Okada, K. (2002). Matching face-like

objects is invariant to differences in direction of contrast. Paper presented at the 10th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Kansas City, MO. Nov.


Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2002). An fMRI investigation of preference habituation. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, Fl., May.

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2002). The matching of smooth

blobby objects—but not faces—is invariant to differences in contrast polarity for both naïve and expert subjects. http://journalofvision.org/2/7/745/

Mangini, M., & Biederman, I. (2002). Prosopagnosics have lower internal noise?

Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL., May.

Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Biederman, I. (2002). Object

recognition in pigeons: The effects of spatial frequencies. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL., May.

Martin-Malivel, J., Mangini, M. C., Fagot, J., & Biederman, I. (2002). Using reverse

correlation to infer the representation of human and baboon faces by humans and baboons. Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL., May.

Biederman, I., & Mangini, M. C. (2002). The representations mediating face

classifications. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. April.

Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Using Reverse Correlation to Infer the

Representations Mediating Facial Judgments. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Orlando, FL, November.

Peissig, J. J., Wasserman, E. A., Young, M. E., & Biederman, I. (2002). Object

recognition in pigeons. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL., Nov.

Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2001). Why do we prefer looking at some scenes rather

than others? Paper presented at OPAM conference, Orlando, Fl. Nov. Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). The matching of smooth,

blobby objects--but not faces--is invariant to differences in contrast polarity for both naïve and expert subjects. http://journalofvision.org/2/7/745/.

Mangini, M., Biederman, I., Malivel, J., and Fagot, J. (2001). Making the ineffable

explicit: Investigating face judgments using reverse correlation. Paper presented at the Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, Orlando, FL. Nov.

Kayaert, G., Vogels, R., & Biederman, I. (2001). Sensitivity of macaque inferior

temporal neurons to parametrically varied shape changes. Paper to be presented at the Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, November.

Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Using Reverse Correlation to Infer the

Representations Distinguishing Facial Gender, Affect, and Individuals, for Normal


Observers and a Prosopagnosic. Spotlight and poster presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Neural Computation. The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, May.

Nederhouser, M., Biederman, I., Mangini, M. S., & Vogels, R. (2001). Is Object

Recognition Invariant to Direction of Illumination and Direction of Contrast? Poster presented at the 8th Joint Conference on Neural Computation. The Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, May.

Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2001). Differentiating expression, gender and identity

in faces: Comparing Normals, the Ideal Observer, and a prosopagnosic. Paper presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL., May. http://journalofvision.org/1/3/331/

Vessel, E. A., Biederman, I., Lee, K. H., & Subramaniam, S. (2001). Contour Grouping

into L-Vertices Depends on Contrast Polarity: Evidence for the Incorporation of Image Statistics into mechanisms of perceptual grouping. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL., May. http://journalofvision.org/1/3/38/

Nederhouser, M., Mangini, M. C., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (2001).

Translation Between S1 and S2 Eliminates Costs of Changes in the Direction of Illumination. Journal of Vision, http://journalofvision.org/1/3/92/

Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and prosopagnosia. Paper

presented at the VIIIth European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition. Saint Malo: France, April.

Michelon, P., & Biederman, I. (2001). Face imagery and perception in prosopagnosia.

Poster presented at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, March.

Vogels, R., Biederman, I., Bar, M., & Lorincz, A. (2000). The representation of objects

in inferior temporal cortex (IT). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. New Orleans, Nov.

Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (2000). Is information about gender and expression

processed independently from information about identity when judging faces? Paper presented at the Object Perception and Memory Annual Meeting. Dallas, Nov.

Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). Picture preference habituation of full color

scenes. Poster presented at the Object Perception and Memory Annual Meeting. Dallas, Nov.

Mangini, M. and Biederman, I. (2000). Human sensitivities to the information content in

faces. Paper presented at the Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, New Orleans, LA. Nov.

Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I., Kosta, A. (2000). Is greater accuracy for gender than

person discrimination of faces a consequence of class uncertainty? Evidence from


normals and a prosopagnosic. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 225.

Vessel, E. A., & Biederman, I. (2000). Brightness judgments within minimal part types

are easier than between part types. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, 226.

Kosta, A., & Biederman, I. (1999). Does variability in the size of an object’s parts

facilitate recognition? Paper presented at the 7th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Los Angeles.. Nov.

Vessel, E. A., Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (1999). Experts vs. novices performing

subordinate RSVP identification. Paper presented at the 7th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Los Angeles. Nov.

Mangini, M. C., & Biederman, I. (1999). Do objects with many parts incur greater

attentional costs than objects with few parts? Poster presented at the 7th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Los Angeles. Nov.

Vogels, R., Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1999) Sensitivity of macaque temporal neurons to

variations in object shading. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL. Nov.

Vogels, R., Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1999) Sensitivity of macaque temporal neurons to

differences in view-invariant vs. metric properties of depth-rotated objects. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40, S776.)

Vessel, E. A., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (1999). A change in contrast polarity

at an L-Junction unbinds its segments. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40, 810.

Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I., & Williams, E. (1999). The effect of test-context junction

discontinuities in perceived lightness. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40, 747.

Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1998). Cortical localization of subliminal visual priming.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Dallas, Nov. Peissig, J. J., Young, M. E., Jr., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1998). The

pigeon's discrimination of single geons. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Dallas, Nov.


Mangini, M. C., Biederman, I., and Williams, E. K. (1998). Perceived lightness as a

measure of perceptual grouping. Paper presented at the Annual Object Perception and Memory Meeting. Dallas, Nov.

Vessel, E., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (1998). When does variation in contrast

polarity affect contour grouping in object recognition? Paper presented at the Annual Object Perception and Memory Meeting. Dallas, Nov.

Sáry, G., Kovács, G., Köteles, K., Benedek, G., Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (1988).

Selectivity variations in monkey inferior temporal neurons for intact and contour-deleted line drawings. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA, November.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1998). Subliminal visual priming transfers within but not

between visual quadrants. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, CA, November.

Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1998). Same-different matching of depth-rotated objects. .

Paper presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39, 1113.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1998). Evidence that representations mediating subliminal

visual priming are localized in an intermediate visual area such as V4. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39, 1113.

Subramaniam, S., Yokosawa, K., & Biederman, I. (1998). Vertex binding and attention

to 2-D shapes. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., May. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 39, 854.

Biederman, I. (1998). A neurocomputational basis for the difference in the

representation of faces and objects. Invited presentation at the Third Annual Cognitive Science Symposium, University of California, Riverside.

Biederman, I. (1998). Why faces and objects are represented differently: A

neurocomputational analysis. Invited address presented at the Inaugural Conference for the Institut des Sciences Cognitives, Lyon, France. April.

Biederman, I. (1998). Three-dimensional object representation and recognition. Invited

position paper at a Symposium on Visual Object Recognition: Theory and Experiment (VORTEX). Los Angeles, CA, February.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1997). Subliminal visual priming. Paper presented at the

Sixth Annual meeting of the Israel Society for Neurosciences, Eliat, Israel, December.


Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1997). What's the fuss about perceiving depth-rotated

objects? Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Philadelphia, PA, November.

M. Bar and I. Biederman. (1997). Subliminal Visual Priming. In The First Conference of

the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Claremont, CA. June. Biederman, I. (1997). Keynote Speaker, 4th Annual Southern California Joint

Symposium on Neural Computation. Los Angeles, CA, May 17th. Biederman, I., & Subramaniam, S. (1997). Predicting the shape similarity of objects

without distinguishing viewpoint invariant properties (VIPs) or parts. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, 998.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1997). The robustness of subliminal visual priming over time

and intervening trials. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, 1005. Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (1997). Independence of visual priming to hemisphere, scale,

and reflection changes. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, 1005. Kalocsai, I., & Biederman, I. (1997). Biologically inspired recognition model with

horizontal connections and extension fields. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, 1000.

Subramaniam, S. & Biederman, I. (1997). Does contrast reversal affect object

identification. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 38, 998 Biederman, I. (1997). Invited address to Conference on Vision and Visual Cognition,

Copenhagen, April 25-27. Biederman, I. (1997). Invited discussant at a CIBA Foundation Workshop on Vision,

London, U. K., February, 14. Biederman, I. (1997). Neurocomputational Bases of Face and Object Recognition.

Invited address presented at a Meeting on Knowledge Based Vision, The Royal Society (London), February 12-13.

Biederman, I (1996). Invited presentation at U.S. Air Force Conference on New

Frontiers in Sensor Applications. Albuquerque, New Mexico. November. Biederman, I., & Kalocsai, P. (1996). Face but not object representations preserve the

original Fourier components. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, Nov.

Kalocsai, P., & Biederman, I. (1996). Addition of horizontal connections and extension

fields to a low level object recognition model qualitatively improves its performance. Paper presented at a Meeting on Object Perception and Memory, Chicago, Nov.


Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1996). Subliminal visual priming. Paper presented at a

Meeting on Object Perception and Memory, Chicago, Nov. Fiser. J., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (1996). Coarse-to-fine tuning on object

recognition: Size or scale. Paper presented at the European Conference of Visual Perception, Strasbourg, France, Sept.

Fiser, J., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (1996). The effect of changing size and

spatial frequency content of gray-scale object images in RSVP identification tasks. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 178.

Kalocsai, P., Biederman, I., Fiser, J., & Fang, P. (1996). Differences between object

and face recognition in utilizing early visual information. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 176.

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1996). Is subliminal priming visual? Is it translationally

invariant? Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 178. Yokosawa, K., Subramaniam, S., Biederman, I. (1996). Independence of perceptual

and semantic features in object verification. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 178.

O'Kane, B. L., Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Kalocsai, P. (1996). Spatial filter and

geon models as a biological framework for the identification of thermal signatures. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Army Science Board, Newport News, VA.

Biederman, I., & Bar, M. (1995). One-Shot Viewpoint Invariance with Nonsense

Objects. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 1995, Los Angeles, November.

Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1995). Effects of deletion,

movement, and scrambling of object components on picture perception in pigeons. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, November.

Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (1995). Do spatial frequency and orientation information

contribute similarly to visual object priming? Paper presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Los Angeles, Nov

Bar, M., & Biederman, I. (1995). Immediate use of viewpoint invariant information for

matching depth-rotated objects. Paper presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. Los Angeles, Nov.

Subramaniam, S., Biederman, I., Kalocsai, P., & Madigan, S. R. (1995). Accurate

identification, but chance forced-choice recognition for RSVP pictures. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 377.


Fiser, J., & Biederman, I. (1995). Priming with complementary gray-scale images in the spatial-frequency and orientation domains. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 475.

Cooper, E. E., Subramaniam, S., & Biederman, I. (1995). Recognizing objects with an

irregular part. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 473. Kalocsai, P., & Biederman, I. (1995). Selective attention among presumed classifiers in

the human face recognition system. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 374.

Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P. C., & Bar, M. (1995). An inadvertent experiment fails to

confirm the employment of viewpoint dependent mechanisms in human object recognition. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 184.

Biederman, I., Subramaniam, S., & Madigan, S. F. (1994). Chance forced choice

recognition memory for identifiable RSVP object pictures. Paper presented at the meetings of the Psychonomics Society, St. Louis, Nov.

Kalocsai, P., & Biederman, I. (1994). When controlled for physical similarity, differences

in emotional expression and gender produce much larger effects on face recognition than rotation in depth. Paper presented at the Second Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. St. Louis, Nov.

Subramaniam, S., Biederman, I., & Cowie, R. I. D. (1994). Priming the naming of

impossible familiar objects. Paper presented at the Second Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory. St. Louis, Nov.

Fiser, J., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1994). Test of a two-layer network as a model

of human entry-level object recognition. Poster presented at the Third Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Monterey, CA, July.

O'Kane, B. L., & Biederman, I. (1994). What is the role of thermal features in the

identification of military targets? Poster presented at the Army Science Conference, June 20-24, Orlando, Fl.

Kalocsai, P., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1994). To what extent can the recognition

of unfamiliar faces be accounted for by a representation of the direct output of simple cells. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35, 1626.

Fiser, J., Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1994). Are the direct outputs of Gabor filters

sufficient for human object recognition or are they only the prior stage for intermediate representations? Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35, 1625.

Biederman, I., Fiser, J., Cooper, E. E., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1993). Intermediate

representations and visual shape recognition. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D. C., November.


Wasserman, E. W., Kirkpatrick-Steger, K., Oden, G. C., & Biederman, I. (1993). Pigeons differentially observe drawings that differ only in spatial organization. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D. C., November.

Cooper, E. E., & Biederman, I. (1993). Geon Differences During Recognition are more

Salient than Metric Differences. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D. C., November.

Gerhardstein, P. C., & Biederman, I. (1993). Viewpoint invariance in recognizing

unfamiliar depth-rotated objects. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34, 1080.

Cooper, E. E., & Biederman, I. (1993). Metric versus viewpoint-invariant shape

differences in visual object recognition. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 34, 1080.

Biederman, I (1993). Shape Recognition. Invited paper at a DIMACS sponsored

Meeting on Mathematical Clustering and Vision. Rutgers University, April. Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P. C., Cooper, E. E., & Nelson, C. A. (1992). High level

shape recognition without an inferior temporal lobe. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, Mo. November.

Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P. C., Cooper, E. E., & Nelson, C. A. (1992). High level

object recognition without a temporal lobe. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Biederman, I., & Hummel, J. E. (1992). From Image Edges to Geons to Viewpoint

Invariant Object Models: A Neural Net Implementation. Invited paper presented at the International Society for Optical Engineering Conference on Intelligent Information Systems, Orlando, FL. April.

Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1991). Picture naming reveals the

major invariances expected of a shape recognition system. Poster presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA. November.

Mansfield, J. S., Biederman, I., Legge, G. E., & Knill, D. C. (1991). Greater statistical

efficiency for viewpoint-invariance differences in the categorization of curves. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Optical Society, San Jose: CA. November.

Biederman, I. (1991). Human Image Understanding. Invited address presented at the

7th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark. August. Biederman, I. (1991). Shape recognition in eye and brain. Invited presentation at the

Stockholm Workshop on Computational Vision, Rosenen, Sweden, August.


Biederman, I. (1991). The neuroscience of object recognition. Invited featured speaker at The First Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science, Calgary, June.

Gerhardstein, P. C., & Biederman, I. (1991). 3D Orientation invariance in visual object

recognition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Cooper, E. E., & Biederman, I. (1991). Evidence for size invariant representations in

visual object recognition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1991). Binding by phase locked neural activity:

Implications for a theory of visual attention. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Wasserman, E. A., DeVolder, C. L., Van Hamme, L. J., & Biederman, I. (1990).

Recognition-by-components: Comparative evaluations of visual discriminations by pigeons. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, November 17-19.

Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1990). Binding invariant Shape Descriptors for Object

Recognition: A Neural Net Implementation. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA, November 17-19.

Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1990). Dynamic Binding: A Basis for the

Representation of Shape by Neural Networks. Paper presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Cambridge, MA. July.

Biederman, I., Hummel, J. E., & Cooper, E. E. (1990) Human Object Recognition.

Invited address presented at a Conference on Visual Information Assimilation in Man and Machine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June.

Biederman, I., & Hummel, J. E. (1990). Grounding mental symbols in object images.

Invited paper presented at the Symbol Grounding Workshop at the 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Md. June.

Fisher, B., Bridgeman, B., & Biederman, I. (1990). Task differences in visual search:

Does attention aid detection? Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1990). A neural net implementation of Recognition-by-

Components. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.


Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1990). Evidence for intermediate, translation invariant representations in visual object recognition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Fl. May.

Devolder, C. L., Wasserman, E. A., & Biederman, I. (1990). Perceptual processes of

visual categorization in pigeons: Recognition-by-Components? Paper presented at the Meetings of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago. April.

Biederman, I., Cooper, E. E., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1989). Priming fragmented

images. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Atlanta, GA, November 17-19.

Hummel, J. E., Biederman, I., Gerhardstein, P., & Hilton, H. J. (1988). A connectionist

model of Recognition-by-Components. Paper presented at the Neural Architectures for Computer Vision Workshop at the Meetings of the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. St. Paul, MN. (August).

Biederman, I. (1988). Real-time human image understanding. Paper presented at the

Spring Symposium on Physical and Biological Approaches to Computational Vision, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Stanford, CA.: March.

Biederman, I. (1987). Matching Image Edges to Object Memory. Paper presented at

the first International Conference on Computer Vision, IEEE Computer Society [Fourth Workshop on Human and Machine Vision.]. London, England: June.

Ju, G., & Biederman, I. (1986). The perception of objects depicted by color or line

drawings. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Human Factors Society, Dayton, Ohio: September.

Blickle, T. W., & Biederman, I. Perceiving degraded objects. Paper presented at the

Meetings of the Human Factors Society, Dayton, Ohio: September, 1986. York, J. L., & Biederman, I. Hand movement speed and accuracy as a function of

gender, alcohol use, and aging. Paper presented at the meetings of the American Medical Society on Alcoholism and the Research Society on Alcoholism, San Francisco: April, 1986.

Biederman, I. Human Image Interpretation. Invited presentation at the Advanced

Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Western Ontario, Canada: April 1986. Biederman, I., Blickle, T., & Ju, G. Studies of the perception of degraded objects. Paper

presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, Mass: November, 1985.

Blickle, T., & Biederman, I. Recognition-by-Components: A principle of object

degradation. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass: April, 1985.


Ju, G., Biederman, I., & Clapper, J. Recognition-by-Components: The minimum number of parts needed for speeded recognition. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Mass: April, 1985.

Biederman, I. Recognition-by-Components: A theory of image interpretation. Paper

presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, Texas: November, 1984.

Walters, D., Biederman, I., & Weisstein, N. The combination of spatial frequency and

orientation is not effortlessly perceived. Paper presented at the ARVO Meetings, Sarasota, Florida: May, 1983.

Halasz, F. G., & Biederman, I. Processing conjunctions of nonintegral dimensions.

Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Philadephia: November, 1981.

Klatsky, G. J., Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. Mandatory

processing of the background in the detection of the objects in scenes. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Human Factors Society, Rochester, N. Y.: October, 1981.

Biederman, I., Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. Pictures of scenes

can be identified as rapidly as pictures of basic level objects. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis: November, 1980.

Biederman, I. Human information processing of real-world scenes. Invited address to

the U. S. Army Research Institute Colloquium on Selected Topics in Behavioral Science Research. Alexandria, Virginia: April, l980.

Klatsky, G. J., Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. Evidence for

mandatory processing of contextual information in real-world scenes. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Hartford: April, l980.

Biederman, I., Teitelbaum, R. C., Klatsky, G. J., Mezzanotte, R. J., Gajewski, E., &

Cohen, L. S. Does the Egeth-Jonides category effect obtain with the settings of pictures of objects? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Phoenix: November, l979.

Malcus, L., Mezzanotte, R. J., Teitelbaum, R. C., & Biederman, I. On the detection of

incongruity in real-world scenes: Physical parsing does not have priority over the access of semantic information. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago: May, l979.

Mezzanotte, R. J., Teitelbaum, R. C., Biederman, I., & Gajewski, E. Evidence for

perceptual--not conceptual--addressing of visual memory. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: April, l979.


Biederman, I., Teitelbaum, R. C., & Mezzanotte, R. J. A fleeting glance is at least a

memory--and a quickly addressable one at that. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, Texas: November, 1978.

Teitelbaum, R. C., Mezzanotte, R. J., & Biederman, I. Why are we able to see real-world

scenes so quickly? An investigation of the role of expectancy and familiarity. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Human Factors Society, Detroit, October, l978.

Mezzanotte, R. J., Biederman, I., Rabinowitz, J. C., & Plude, D. Detecting objects in

scenes with bizarre contextual relations. Paper presented at the meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Washington, D. C.: March, l978.

Biederman, I., & Tsao, Y.-C. Chinese readers show more Stroop-type interference than

readers of English. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meetings, Washington, D. C.: November, l977.

King, M., Tangney, J., Biederman, I., & Meyer, G. Paradoxical asymmetry effects and

the shape-slant invariance algorithm. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meetings, Denver: November, l975.

Biederman, I., & Rabinowitz, J. C. Perceiving objects in incongruous scenes:

Implications for a syntax of vision. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meetings, Boston: November, l974.

Biederman, I., & Rabinowitz, J. C. The information extracted from a glance at a scene.

Paper presented at the Meetings of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia: April, l974.

Moore, T. E., & Biederman, I. The recognition of ungrammaticality: Multiple violations.

Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meetings, St. Louis: November, l973. Biederman, I., Stacy, E. W., Glass, A. L., & Cook, S. Perceiving real-world scenes.

Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts: April, l972.

Biederman, I., & Kaplan, R. Stimulus discriminability and S-R compatibility: Evidence

for independent effects in choice reaction time. Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society Meetings, San Antonio, Texas: November, l970.

Biederman, I., & Dumas, J. S. The effects of information measures of natural language

sequences on paired-associate learning. Paper presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meetings, Washington, D. C.: April, l968.

Biederman, I., & Sterns, H. L. The effects of redundant relevant information and

stimulus probability on choice reaction time. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago: October, l967.


Biederman, I. Processing contingent information in perceptual identification tasks. Paper presented at the Meetings of the Eastern Psychological. Association, Boston: April, 1967.

Invited Colloquia: University of Michigan (Human Performance Center); Aberdeen Proving Grounds; MacMaster University; Johns Hopkins University; University of Michigan (Mental Health Research Institute); Center for Theoretical Biology (SUNY/Buffalo); University of California (Berkeley); University of Alabama; Stanford University, George Peabody College; University of Toronto; University of Oregon, Kent State University, University of Pittsburgh; Scarborough College (University of Toronto); Brown University; Florida Atlantic University; University of Kansas; University of Rochester; University of Toronto; Cornell University; Stanford University; University of California at Los Angeles; University of California at Riverside; University of California at Santa Barbara; University of Oregon; University of Washington; University of California at Santa Cruz; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Haifa; Daemen College; St. Bonaventure University; Rutgers University; Emory University; Naval Aerospace Medical Corps, Pensacola, Fl.; Temple University; Human Resources Laboratory, Williams AFB, AZ; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Delaware; Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University; University of California, Santa Cruz; University of California, Berkeley (Psychology Department); NASA Ames; Clairmont Graduate Schools; University of California, Santa Barbara; Stanford University (Psychology Department); University of California, Davis; Human Resources Laboratory, Williams, AFB, AZ; University of California, Berkeley (Oxyopia); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Stanford University (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory); Bucknell University; Northwestern University; Purdue University; Naval Research Laboratory (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory); University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Columbia University; University of Rochester; Duke University; University of Minnesota; University of Maryland, Georgia Technical Institute; Brandeis University; University of Pittsburgh; MacMaster University; University of Toronto; Cambridge University (ARU); University of London; Harvard University; University of South Florida; Columbia University (Animal Cognition Group); Honeywell; MIT (Psychology Department and the Center for Biological Information Processing); US Army Research Institute, Ft. Benning, GA; Stanford University; McGill University (Departments of Electrical Engineering; Cognitive Science Program), University of Auckland, New Zealand, Florida Atlantic University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Weizmann Institute, University of Tel Aviv, Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (Paris), Cole National Scientifique Technical (Paris), University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, University of Leuven/Leaven, Belgium, North Dakota State University, Princeton University, Neuropsychology Laboratories, National Institutes of Health, George Washington University, University of Arizona, University of Southern California (Department of Psychology; Department of Computer Science); University of Paris; University of Kansas; Rice University; University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; University of California, Santa Cruz; Navel Ocean Systems Center, Kailua Bay, Hawaii; University of Hawaii at Manoa, MIT Cognitive Neuroscience Program,


Indiana University, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Science Department; Pennsylvania State University. Invited Colloquia from 1991-present: California Institute of Technology; UCLA; University of Toronto (Erindale; St. George); University of California, Irvine; Bochum University (Germany); Birmingham University (England); Herriot-Watt University (Scotland); Sterling University (Scotland); Oxford University (England); UC/Irvine; University of Southern California; California Institute of Technology; University of California, San Diego; Night Vision Laboratory (Fort Belvoir, VA); National Institutes of Mental Health (Neuropsychology Division), Bethesda, MD; Brooklyn College; University of Utah; INRIA (Sophia, France); Trinity University (Dublin, Ireland); Emory University; Yale University; Massachusetts Institue of Technology; AIR Kansai, Japan; RIKEN, Tokyo; NTT Toyko; University of Haifa; Weizmann Institute, Rehovat, Israel; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; Cornell University; University of Budapest, Hungary; Max Planck Institut for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany; NEC Research Institute, Tokyo; University of Tokyo; National Institue of Bioscience and Human-Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; Kyushu University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China; Hughes Research Institute, Malibu, CA.; CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette; INSERM, Strasbourg, France; San Diego State University; Clairmont College; Weizmann Institute, Rehovat, Israel; Claremont College; Inserm, Cerveau and Vision, Lyon France; Inserm, Strasbourg, France; University of Southampton, England; UCLA; INSERM, Strasbourg; France; University of Glasgow, Scotland; University of St. Andrews, Scotland; Catholique University of Leuvan, Belgium; Birmingham University, England; University of California, Irvine; University of Michigan; Rutgers University (Nov '97); Technische Universitaet Berlin (Dec '97); Szeged University (Hungary) (Dec '97); University of Louisville (March, '98); John Hopkins University (March, '98); Centre de Recherché Cerveau et Cognition, CNRS, Toulouse (April, '98); University of California, San Diego (Computer Science, March ‘99); UCLA (Cognitive Science, November, ’99); University of British Columbia (Jan., ’00); Simon Fraser University (Jan. ’00); Claremont College, (Jan. ’00); Max Planck Institute, Munich (Feb. ’00); Medical University of Munich (Neurology) (Feb. ’00); Department of Physiology, Katholique University of Leuven, Belgium (March, 00); CNRS Marseille, France (April, 00); University of California/Berkeley (Jan. ’01); Stanford University (Jan. ’01), University of Louisville (April ’01); UCLA Department of Psychology (April ’01); Department of Neuroscience, University of Trieste (Sept. ’01); Department of Psychology, University of Trieste (Sept. ’01); UCLA, Brain Imaging Center (April 2002); Oxford University (June 2002), University of Louisville (Oct. 2002); UCLA (Cognitive Science Program) (Oct., 2002), California State College at Long Beach (Nov. 2002), Riken Research Institute, Tokyo (September, 2003); Mahadol University, Bangkok, Thailand (September 2003); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (November 2003); University of Minnesota (March 2004), Emory University (April 2005); University of Vienna (May 2005); Redwoods Neuroscience Institute (June 2005); California Institute of Technology (August 2005); CNRS Marseilles, France (Feb. 2006); University of Glasgow (March 2006); University of Parma (March, 2006); University of London, Whitehead Lecture (March 2006); University of London (Goldsmiths) (March 2006); University of Cardiff (March 2006);


University of Bolzano, Italy (April 2006); University of Padova, Italy (April 2006); University of Bologna, Italy (April, 2006); Oxford University, England (Sept. 2006); University of Birmingham, England (Sept. 2006); University College, London (Two Colloquia) (Sept. 2006); National Taipei University (Taiwan) (February, 2007); Universite de Provence (Marseille, France) (March, 2007), University of Geneva, Switzerland (April, 2007); CNRS and University of Paris V, France (October, 2007); University IUAV Venice, Italy; Harvard University (January, 2008), Brandeis University (April, 2008), Boston College (April, 2008), Universite de Paris V (October, 2008), Bangor University (U.K.) (October, 2008), University of York (U.K.) (October 2008), CNRS Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée (October, 2008), University of Western Ontario (June, 2009), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (October, 2009); Universite catholique de Louvain (2 Lectures) (October, 2009); University of Finance and Management (Dept. of Cognitive Psychology), Warsaw, Poland (October, 2009), University of Novi Sad, Serbia (Two lectures, November, 2009); University College London (November, 2009); Northwestern University (April 2011); Ohio State University (April 2011); Ft. Meade, MD (Nov. 2011); Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (Nov 2011); University of Lisbon (Portugal) October 2012; Hebrew University of Jerusalem (October, 2012); California State University, Riverside (Jan, 2013); Univ. Pennsylvania (March 2013); Kansas State University (Two lectures) (April 2013); University of Chicago (April 2013); California Institute of Technology (August 2017) External Funding: Contract: Cognitive Object Recognition System (CORS) Phase II. US Army/UtopiaCompression Corp. $750,000. 2 years (2011-2012). Consultant. $26,400. Grant: Perceptual Bases of Visual Concepts. NEI. 9R01EY019781-18. $428,398. 7/1/09-8/31/11. Co-PI w. E. A. Wasserman, Univ. of Iowa. Grant: Mid-Level Vision Systems for Low Vision. NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership Grant. $5,900,000. 5 years. 2007-2012. N. Grzywacz PI. Co-PI w. B, Tjan, Z. Lu, B. Mel. Grant: Neural and Behavioral Analyses of the Representation of Shape. National Science Foundation, NSF BCS 0617699. September 1, 2006-August 31, 2010. $545,894. Grant: Perceptual Bases of Visual Concepts. NIMH. 2003-2008. Co-PI with E. A. Wasserman, University of Iowa. MH47313. $1,150,000. Grant: fMRI and Behavioral Analyses of the Representation of Shape. National Science Foundation, NSF 0531177. Sept 1, 2005-Aug 31, 2008. $200,000. Grant: A Psychologically Inspired Object Recognition System. US Army. Co-PI w. Chaitanya Raju (Ultopia Compression). 2009. $150,000.


Grant: Development of an Automatic Tape-collecting Lathe Ultramicrotome for Large Scale Brain Reconstruction. 2008-2009. Harvard University. $32,000. Grant: Acquisition of an fMRI Basic Research Imaging System at the University of Southern California. National Science Foundation, NSF 04207994. August 1, 2004-July 31, 2008. $1,230,504. Grant: Assessment of the Representation of Shape in Individuals from a Culture with Minimal Regular, Simple Artifacts. National Science Foundation, NSF 0426415. September 1, 2004-August 31, 2006. $49,613. Grant: The Neural Coding of Object Recognition in Humans and Macaques. August 1, 2000 to July 31, 2004. Human Frontiers Science Program Organization. RG0035/2000-B (co-PI with Rufin Vogels). $520,000. Grant: Neural and Psychophysical Studies of Shape Representation in the Ventral Pathway of the Macaque. James S. McDonnell Foundation, Nov 1, 1999 to Oct. 31, 2002 (Three years). $108,022. (JSMF Grant No. 99-53). Grant: Perceptual Bases of Visual Concepts. NIMH. 1998-2003 .Five years. Co-PI with E. A. Wasserman, University of Iowa. (#MH47313). $710,601. Contract: Aiding Image Analysts though RSVP Methodology. National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). NMA202-98-K-1089. 1998-00 (18 months). $166,044. Grant. Adaptive Optoelectronic Eyes: Hybrid Sensor/Processor Architectures. MURI. DOD. 1998-2001. (ARO DAAG55-98-1-0293) Co-PI with A. Tanguay and others. $945,071. (Approx. 10% to IB.) Grant: Training Difficult Identifications. U. S. Army ARO AASERT Augmentation Grant. DAAH04-94-G-0065. July 1, 1997-June 30, 2000. $119,553. Grant: Neural and Psychophysical Studies of Shape Representation in the Ventral Pathway of the Macaque. James S. McDonnell Foundation, Nov 1, 1996 to Mar. 31, 2000. (Three years). $103, 735. (JSMF Grant No. 96-44). Grant: U. S. Army ARO NVESD DAAH04-94-G-0065. Thermal Identification through Geon Representations. $395,000 (Five years) 1995-2000. Grant: Perceptual Bases of Visual Concepts in Pigeons. NIMH. 1994-1997. Three years). $318,226. Co-PI with E. A. Wasserman. (#MH47313). Grant: Measuring Eye Fixations in Target Recognition. Office of Naval Research. (N00014-95-1-1108). 1995-1996. $121,077. Grant: McDonnell-Pew. The Neural Basis of Shape Recognition. $60,000 (Two years) 1992-1994. (#T89-01245-029).


Grant: Perceptual Bases of Visual Concepts in Pigeons. NIMH. 1991-1994 (Three years). $305,000. Co-PI with E. A. Wasserman. (#MH47313). Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Psychophysical Analysis of Perceptual Representations. $595,000, 1990-1994 (Three years). (Director and PI) (#90-0274). Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Human Image Understanding, 1988-1992, $463,437 (Three years). Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Conference on Three-Dimensional Representation, 1989, $19,500 (One year). Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Human Image Interpretation, 1986-1988, $455,000 (Three years). Grant: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Aging and Musculo-Motor Consequences of Alcohol Abuse, 1987-1990, $365,000 (Three years). Co-PI with James York. Grant: Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Human Information Processing of Targets and Real-World Scenes, 1983-1985, $363,132. Grant: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 1979-1982. Human Information Processing of Real World Scenes, $153,232 (Three years). NIH Special Fellowship to Stanford University, 1979-1980, $19,000. Grant: NIMH, Perceptual recognition of real-world scenes, 1975-1978, $82,000. Grant: NIMH, Perceptual recognition of real-world scenes, l974-l975, $18,742. Contract: U. S. Department of Transportation, Human factors portion of study for reducing hazardous effects of highway features and roadside objects. Through Calspan Corporation, 1974-1976, $59,000. NIMH Special Fellowship to Stanford University, l97l-l972, $l8,000 Professional Recognition: Taught short course on “Memory Systems” at the Central European University, Budapest, 2009. Invited to give two lectures at Vision Train, Les Houches, France, 2007. Reviewing team. Riken, Tokyo. (Japan’s premier laboratory for research in cognitive neuroscience). November, 2006.


Invited to be the first Visiting Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Trento, 2006. Trento has Italy’s first graduate program in Cognitive Nuroscience. I was the first choice for the invitation. Michelle R. Greene, an undergraduate doing research in my laboratory, won the USC Undergraduate Research Award (that is, for all disciplines) and was also awarded an NSF predoctoral fellowship to MIT (both in 2004). To my knowledge, Ms. Greene is the first USC Psychology major to have received either award. Named, Chair of the Grawemeyer Psychology Awards Committee, 2002. (Member, 2001.) This Committee annually awards Psychology’s largest prize, $200,000. Elizabeth Williams, a High School Sophomore performed a summer research project in 1999 in my laboratory which led to her being one of 10 National Finalists in the Intell Science Competition. Interviewed by Anne Eisenberg, University of Iowa, as one of the 15 most influential cognitive scientists in the world as determined by citation counts and peer ratings. USC Associates Award in 1999 for Creativity in Research ($5,000). Named to give the 2001 Broadbent Lecture at the Meetings of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology to be held in Edinborough, Scotland. 1987 Psychological Review article, “Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image Understanding” judged as one of “The one hundred most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century: http://cogsci.umn.edu/millennium/final.html. 1987 Psychological Review article, “Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image Understanding” deemed a “Classic” in a 1999 poll of visual perception scientists conducted by Professor Steven Yantis, Johns Hopkins University. 1987 Psychological Review article, “Recognition-by-Components: A Theory of Human Image Understanding” is the fifth most cited paper (“Top 100 Papers in Vision Science”) in vision science as documented in a list developed by Yury Petrov, Northeastern University. Current Editorial Boards: Psychological Review; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Visual Cognition; British Journal of Psychology. Elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists (An honor society) (1994). Elected Representative, Psychology Section, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994-. Invited to be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1994.


Invited to present a two week course in The Cognitive Neuroscience of Shape Recognition, ATR Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, February, 1994. Named to the Grawemeyer Committee, 2001, that awards a $200,000 yearly prize to an individual for their contributions to Psychology. By invitation, taught a week course on my research at the “Bolzano International School

in Cognitive Analysis” in Bolzano, Italy, Sept. 2001. [Travel + Expenses + Stipend paid.]

Appointed Research Area Director, User Centered Sciences, Integrated Media Systems

Center. Research with the USC Face Recognition System and a prosopagnosic individual

featured on a French-German television network, ARTE, in a program, “La Fin des Secrets.”

Invited to be a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany, Feb., 2000 [Travel

+ Expenses + Stipend paid.] Invited to Present the Following Named or Plenary Lecture Series: “Aesthetics and the Brain.” Invited Keynote Address to the ECVP Satellite Meeting on

Visual Science of Art. Berlin, Germany. August, 2017. The Whitehead Lecture. University of London, Goldsmiths. March, 2006. Invited International Speaker at a Symposium on Brains, Faces, and Beliefs. Cardiff

University, September, 2006. Invited plenary address at the Conference on Early Vision: Computational and

Biological, Bertinoro, Italy. June, 2005. Featured speaker at the Vision Society of Japan, Tokyo, January, 2005. Featured speaker at the Annual Japanese Workshop on Attention and Cognition.

Tokyo, August, 2003. Distinguished International Plenary address to the Japanese Psychological Association,

Tokyo, August, 2003. The Broadbent Lecture at the European Conference on Cognitive Psychology,

Edinborough, Scotland (July, 2001). The 20th MacEachran Memorial Lecture Series, University of Alberta, October 1994.

(Declined). The First Brooklyn College Alumni Colloquium, April, 1993.


The William F. Prokasy Lecture at The University of Utah. May, 1993. The Fourth Annual Fern Forman Fisher Lecture, University of Kansas, November, 1990. Invited to Present the Following Featured or Keynote Address at Scientific Meetings Winter School on Biological and Computational Vision, Les Houches, France, March

2007. Invited Plenary Speaker at the Meetings of the Japanese Psychological Association.

Tokyo, September, 2003. Invited Keynote Speaker, 4th Annual Southern California Joint Symposium on Neural

Computation. Los Angeles, CA, May, 1997. Invited address to the Royal Society of London, February, 1997. IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, San Francisco, CA June,

1996 (Keynote Speaker on Workshop on Function, Formation, and Facilitation.) Attention & Performance Conference, Haifa, Israel, July 1996. (Featured speaker.) Meetings of the Vision Society of Japan, January, 1995. (Featured Speaker) Special Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society, March, 1994. (Special

meeting organized solely for my address. Admission charge. Five-hundred attendees.)

Meetings of the British Machine Vision Association, September, 1993. (Distinguished International Speaker)

Meeting of the Irish Association of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, September, 1993. (Distinguished International Speaker.)

SPIE Society for Medical Imaging, July, 1990, Newport Beach, CA. Biederman, I. (Distinguished Speaker.)

Professional Activities Appointed to the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Senior Advisory Panel of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (DARPA). 2007. NIH Panel on Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes, 2007. Reviewing panel of Neuroscience Division, Riken, Tokyo. (Japan’s premier laboratory for research in cognitive neuroscience). November, 2006. National Science Foundation Panel on Cognitive Neuroscience, 2006; 2007. Chaired, American Psychological Association Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) Awards Committee, 2006. Editorial Boards: Visual Cognition, 1994-2006; British Journal of Psychology, 1995-2000; Psychological Review, 1996-2002; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; 1994-2006; European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2000-2005.


Elected Representative, Section on Psychology, AAAS Council of Representatives, 1995-1999. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Consulting Program Manager for Cognitive Science, 1985-1986; Panel on Cognitive Science, 1986-1988; Member of Advisory Board for Behavioral and Biological Sciences, 1985-1989. National Science Foundation, Panel for Memory and Cognitive Processes, 1983-1986; Panel for Science and Technology Research Centers, 1989. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council Committee on Vision, 1983-1989 Memory & Cognition: Consulting Editor, l974; Associate Editor, 1975-198l. American Psychological Association, Fellow, Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology) and 21 (Society for Engineering Psychology). American Psychological Society, Fellow, Charter Member. Psychological Roundtable; Sigma Xi; Helmholtz Society. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Founding Fellow of The Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (A Skeptics Group). Consultant (partial list): American Institutes for Research (Human Factors Engineering), Human Engineering Laboratories, Aberdeen Proving Grounds; Condon, Klacke, Ange & Gervase; Manchester & Andruschat; Calspan Corporation; Doyle, Diebold, Bermingham & Gorman; Morrisson & Foerster; Sharon & Sharon; New York State Research Institute on Alcoholism; Air Force Office of Scientific Research; Harris & Palumbo; U.S. Army Night Vision and Electro-Optical Laboratories; SureSight; Utopia Compression; American Institutes for Research (Editorial reviewer, MCAT), others. Professional Society Memberships Association for Psychological Science, Psychonomics Society, Sigma Xi, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Vision Science Society, American Psychological Association, Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (a skeptics Society), Society for Neuroscience.

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