Galit Yovel
Galit Yovel (hebräisch גלית יובל; * 1971) ist eine israelische Psychologin.
Sie ist Professorin an der Tel Aviv University.
Yovel wurde 2001 an der University of Chicago zum PhD bei Jerre Levy und Ken Paller promoviert. Einen Postdoc-Aufenthalt hatte sie bei Nancy Kanwisher am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Eines ihrer Forschungsgebiete ist die Gesichtserkennung.
Schriften (Auswahl)
- Yovel, G., Paller, K., & Levy, J. (2002): Putting the brain back together: Mechanisms of interhemispheric integration in face perception. Journal of Vision, 2(7), 595–595.
- Yovel, G., & Kanwisher, N. (2004): Face perception: domain specific, not process specific. Neuron, 44(5), 889–898.
- Yovel, G., & Kanwisher, N. (2005): The neural basis of the behavioral face-inversion effect. Current biology, 15(24), 2256–2262.
- Kanwisher, N., & Yovel, G. (2006): The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361(1476), 2109–2128.
- Pitcher, D., Walsh, V., Yovel, G., & Duchaine, B. (2007): TMS evidence for the involvement of the right occipital face area in early face processing. Current Biology, 17(18), 1568–1573.
- De Vos, M., Thorne, J. D., Yovel, G., & Debener, S. (2012): Let's face it, from trial to trial: comparing procedures for N170 single-trial estimation. Neuroimage, 63(3), 1196–1202.
- Duchaine, B., & Yovel, G. (2015): A revised neural framework for face processing. Annual review of vision science, 1(1), 393–416.
- Bernstein, M., & Yovel, G. (2015): Two neural pathways of face processing: A critical evaluation of current models. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 55, 536–546.
- Freiwald, W., Duchaine, B., & Yovel, G. (2016). Face processing systems: from neurons to real-world social perception. Annual review of neuroscience, 39(1), 325–346.
- Yovel, G., & O’Toole, A. J. (2016): Recognizing people in motion. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(5), 383–395.
- Arizpe, J., Walsh, V., Yovel, G. & Baker, C. I.: The categories, frequencies, and stability of idiosyncratic eye-movement patterns to faces. Vision. Res. 141, 191–203 (2017).
- Simhi, N., & Yovel, G. (2021): Independent contributions of the face, body, and gait to the representation of the whole person. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(1), 199–214.