@article{cote_eyes_2026,

title = {The eyes are central to face detection: revisiting the foundations of face processing},

author = {L. Côté and J. Lamontagne and A. Bellerose and C. Blais and D. Fiset},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-105030389147&doi=10.1016%2Fj.visres.2026.108785&partnerID=40&md5=752aa5d9923ac60539e36118ad41e1e6},

doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2026.108785},

issn = {00426989 (ISSN)},

year  = {2026},

date = {2026-01-01},

journal = {Vision Research},

volume = {243},

abstract = {Face detection feels effortless, yet it requires finely tuned computations to extract socially meaningful signals from the visual stream. Here, we used the Bubbles method to isolate the facial features and spatial frequency information that support face categorization. Across three experiments varying in task demands and visual context, the eye region consistently emerged as the most diagnostic source of information, particularly in high spatial frequencies. This finding held whether participants distinguished faces from noise, from non-face objects, or from real-world categories—suggesting that the eyes serve as an anchor point for categorization across contexts. Strikingly, this diagnostic profile mirrors that found in face identification tasks, implying that detection and recognition may rely on shared perceptual mechanisms rather than sequential, independent processes. This overlap sheds light on longstanding ambiguities in the prosopagnosia literature, indicating that detection impairments found in patients may stem from a broader failure to extract critical eye information. More broadly, our results invite a rethinking of the early stages of face processing, suggesting that detection already involves selective use of diagnostic facial features that supports recognition, emotional decoding, and social perception. © 2026 The Author(s).},

keywords = {adult, article, Black person, Bubbles, Categorization, Caucasian, Detection, emotion assessment, Faces, Facial Recognition, facies, female, human, human experiment, Image analysis, information processing, Information use, male, Noise, normal human, perception, Prosopagnosia, spatial frequency discrimination, task performance, visual discrimination, Young Adult},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{maiano_validation_2023,

title = {Validation of an Adapted Version of the Glasgow Anxiety Scale for People with Intellectual Disabilities (GAS-ID)},

author = {C. Maïano and A. J. S. Morin and C. Gagnon and E. Olivier and D. Tracey and R. G. Craven and S. Bouchard},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125069450&doi=10.1007%2fs10803-021-05398-7&partnerID=40&md5=7347eb15e719941ce5eca046eb7f4564},

doi = {10.1007/s10803-021-05398-7},

issn = {01623257},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders},

volume = {53},

number = {4},

pages = {1560–1572},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {The objective of the study was to validate adapted versions of the Glasgow Anxiety Scale for people with Intellectual Disabilities (GAS-ID) simultaneously developed in English and French. A sample of 361 youth with mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID) (M = 15.78 years) from Australia (English-speaking) and Canada (French-speaking) participated in this study. The results supported the factor validity and reliability, measurement invariance (between English and French versions), a lack of differential items functioning (as a function of youth’s age and ID level, but not sex in the English-Australian sample), temporal stability (over one year interval), and convergent validity (with global self-esteem and school loneliness) of a bi-factor exploratory structural equation modeling representation of the GAS-ID. The present study supports the psychometric properties of the English-Australian and French-Canadian versions of the adapted GAS-ID. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.},

note = {Publisher: Springer},

keywords = {Adolescent, adult, Anxiety, anxiety assessment, article, Australia, autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Canada, Child, confirmatory factor analysis, controlled study, convergent validity, emotion assessment, English (language), exploratory structural equation modeling, female, French (language), glasgow anxiety scale, human, Humans, instrument validation, Intellectual Disability, intellectual impairment, intelligence quotient, loneliness, major clinical study, male, Psychometrics, psychometry, reliability, reproducibility, Reproducibility of Results, school child, school loneliness scale, self description questionnaire 1, self esteem, self report, self-concept assessment, statistical analysis, validity, Young Adult},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}