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Articles in The Conversation

• Face value: where to look when you want to read someone

• Surprise! Facial expressions aren't necessarily universal

• I should know you: 'face blindness' and the problem of identifying others

2024 & in press

• Engfors, L.M., Wilmer, J.B., Palermo, R., Gignac, G.E., Germine, L.T., & Jeffery, L. (2024). Face recognition’s practical relevance: Social bonds, not social butterflies. Cognition, 250, 105816 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105816

• de la Harpe, S., Palermo, R., Brown, E.,  Fay, N., & Dawel, A. (2024). People Attribute a Range of Highly-Varied and Socially-Bound Meanings to Naturalistic Sad Facial Expressions. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-024-00463-y

• Schiller, D., Yu, A. N.C. Alia-Klein, N., ... Palermo, R. ..... Leroy Lowe, L., (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105450.

• Bothe, E., Jeffery, L., Dawel, A., Donatti-Liddelow, B. & Palermo, R. (2024).  Autistic traits are associated with differences in the perception of genuineness and approachability of emotional expressions independently of alexithymia. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001350

2023 

• Zheng, Y., de la Harpe, S., Yang, A.Y., Hayward, W.G.,  Palermo, R., &  Hsiao, J. (2023).  Cultural Differences in the Effect of Mask Use on Face and Facial Expression Recognition. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45 (45)

• Gignac, G.E., Palermo, R., Bothe, E., Walker, D.L., & Wilmer, J. (in press, accepted 10 July 2023). Face Perception and Facial Emotional Expression Recognition Ability: Both Unique Predictors of the Broader Autism Phenotype. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231203679

• Walker, D.L., Palermo, R., & Gignac, G.E. (2023). General Figure and Face Specific Closure Ability: Predictors of Trait-Autism?  Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04351-4 

• Siddique, S., Sutherland, C., Jeffery, L.,  Swe, D., Gwinn, O.S., & Palermo, R. (2023). Children show neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness as measured by fast periodic visual stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 180, 108488. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108488 

• Walker, D.L., Palermo, R., Callis, Z.M.V., & Gignac, G.E. (2023). The Association Between Intelligence and Face Processing Abilities: A Conceptual and Meta-Analytic Review . Intelligence, 96, 101718. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2022.101718

• Stuart, N., Whitehouse, A., Palermo, R., Bothe, E., & Badcock, N. (2023). Eye gaze in autism spectrum disorder: A review of neural evidence for the eye avoidance hypothesis.  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 53, 1184-1905 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05443-z 

2022

• Swe, D.C., Palermo, R., Gwinn, O.S., Bell, J., Nakanishi, A., Collova, J., &  Sutherland, C.A.M. (2022). Trustworthiness perception is mandatory: Task instructions do not modulate fast periodic visual stimulation trustworthiness responses. Journal of Vision 22(11):17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.11.17

• Siddique, S.,  Jeffery, L., Palermo, R., Collova , J.R., & Sutherland, C.A.M. (2022). Children’s dynamic use of face- and behavior-based cues in an economic trust game. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001438

• Siddique, S., Jeffery, L., Palermo, R., Collova, J. R., & Sutherland, C.A.M. (2022). Development of face-based trustworthiness impressions in childhood: A systematic review and meta analysis. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101131

2021

• Turbett, K.,  Jeffery, L., Bell, J., Digges, A., Zheng, Y., Hsiao, J., & Palermo, R. (2021). Serial Dependence of Facial Identity for Own- and Other-Race Faces. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211059430

• Hutchings, R. , Palermo, R., Hazelton, J.L., Piguet, O. & Kumfor, F. (2021). Considering hemispheric specialization in emotional face processing:  An eyetracking study in left- and right-lateralised semantic dementia. Brain Sciences. 11(9), 1195. doi:10.3390/brainsci11091195. Special Issue: Emotions and the Right Hemisphere. 

• Turbett, K., Jeffery, L., Bell, J., Burton, J. & Palermo, R. (2021). Autistic Traits are Associated with Less Precise Perceptual Integration of Face Identity. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-05111-8

• Turbett, K., Palermo, R., Bell, J. Hanran-Smith, A.D., & Jeffery, L. (2021). Serial Dependence of Facial Identity Reflects High-Level Face Coding. Vision Research, 182, 9-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.01.004 Special issue on "Calibrating the visual system" edited by Samuel Solomon, Ruben Coen Cagli, Michael Webster, Jenny Bosten, Anna Franklin 

2020

• Gruber, J., Maclaine, E., Avard, E., Purcell, J., Cooper, G., Tobias, M., Earls, H., Wieland, L., Bothe, E., Boggio, P.,  & Palermo, R. (2020). Associations Between Hypomania Proneness and Attentional Bias to Happy, but not Angry or Fearful, Faces in Emerging Adults. Cognition & Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1810638

• Sutherland, C. A. M., Burton, N. S., Wilmer, J. B., Blokland, G. A. M., Germine, L., Palermo, R., Collova, J., &  Rhodes, G. (2020). Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201920131. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920131117

  • Also see: Sutherland, C. A. M., Collova, J. R., Palermo, R., Germine, L., Rhodes, G., Blokland, G. A. M., … Wilmer, J. B. (2020). Reply to Cook and Over: Social learning and evolutionary mechanisms are not mutually exclusive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(28), 16114 LP – 16115. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2009587117

• Swe, D.C., Palermo, R.,  Gwinn, O.S., Rhodes, G., Neumann, M., Payart, S. & Sutherland, C.A.M. (2020).  An objective and reliable electrophysiological marker for implicit trustworthiness perception. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15, (3), 337–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsaa043 

• Williams, J., Huggins, C.,  Zupan, B., Willis, M., Van Rheenen, T.,  Sato, W.,  Palermo, R., Ortner, C., Krippl, M., Kret, M., Dickson, J.,  Li, C. &, Lowe, L. (2020).  A sensorimotor control framework for understanding emotional communication and regulation.  Neuroscience & Biobehavioural Reviews, 112, 503-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.02.014

2019 

• Roberts, A., Palermo, R., & Visser, T.A.W. (2019). Unravelling how low dominance in faces biases non-spatial attention. Scientific Reports, 9: 2473. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39223-0

• Turbett, K.,  Palermo, R., Bell, J.  Burton, J. & Jeffery, L. (2019). Individual Differences in Serial Dependence of Facial Identity are Associated with Face Recognition Abilities. Scientific Reports, 9, 18020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53282-3. 

• Alexi, J., Dommisse, K.,  Cleary, D.,  Palermo, R., Kloth, N., & Bell, J. (2019). An assessment of computer generated stimuli for use in studies of body size estimation and bias. Frontiers in Psychology.,10, 2390. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02390

• De Lissa, P., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Palermo, R., Mahajan, Y.,  Degno, F., &  Hutzler, F.  (2019). Peripheral preview abolishes N170 face-sensitivity at fixation: Using fixation-related potentials to investigate dynamic face processing. Visual Cognition. 27:9-10, 740-759. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2019.1676855

• Bothe, E., Palermo, R., Rhodes, G., Burton, N. & Jeffery, L. (2019).  Expression recognition difficulty is associated with social but not attention-to-detail autistic traits and reflects both alexithymia and perceptual difficulty. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49: 4559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04158-y

• Nankoo, M. M. A., Palermo, R., Bell, J. A., & Pestell, C. (2019). Examining the Rate of Self-Reported ADHD-Related Traits and Endorsement of Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Autistic-Like Traits in Australian University Students. Journal of Attention Disorders.  23, 8, 869-886. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054718758901

• Horne, D., Palermo, R., Neumann, M., Housely, R., & Bell, J. (2019). Can People Accurately Estimate the Calories in Food Images? An Optimised Set of Low- and High- Calorie Images from the Food-pics Database. Appetite, 139, 189-196.  doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.04.017

• Palermo, R. (2019). The British Journal of Psychology in 2019 and beyond. British Journal of  Psychology, 110: 1-2. doi:10.1111/bjop.12373

• Alexi, J., Palermo, R., Rieger, E., & Bell, J. (2019). Evidence for a perceptual mechanism relating body size misperception and eating disorder symptoms, Eating and Weight Disorders, 24, 615-621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-019-00653-4 

• Willis, M.L., Constantino, A.I., Nitsche, M.A., Palermo. R. & Rivolta, D. (2019). Anodal tDCS and high-frequency tRNS targeting the occipitotemporal cortex do not always enhance face perception. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 78. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00078 

• Roberts, A., Palermo, R., & Visser, T.A.W. (2019). Effects of dominance and prestige based social status on competition for attentional resources. Scientific Reports, 9, 2473, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39223

• Skuk, V.G., Palermo, R., Broemer, L., & Schweinberger, S.R. (2019). Autistic Traits are Linked to Individual Differences in Familiar Voice Identification. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 7, 2727-2767. doi:10.1007/s10803-017-3039-y 

2018

• Dondzilo, L., Rieger, E., Palermo, R., & Bell, J. (2018). The causal role of selective attention for thin-ideal images on negative affect and rumination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 61, 128-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2018.07.006

• Neumann, M.F., Viska, C.G., van Huis, S. & Palermo, R. (2018). Similar distraction, but differential suppression, for faces and non-face objects: Evidence from behaviour and event-related potentials. Biological Psychology, 139, 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2018.09.011

• Hutchings, R., Palermo, R., Bruggemann, J., Hodges, J.R., Piguet, O., & Kumfor, F. (2018). Looking but not seeing: Increased eye fixations in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia. Cortex, 103, 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.02.011

• Robson, M.K., Palermo, R., Jeffery, L., & Neumann, M.F. (2018). Ensemble Coding of Face Identity is Present but Weaker in Congenital Prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 111, 377-386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.02.019

• Alexi, J., Cleary, D., Dommisse, K., Palermo, R., Kloth, N., Burr, D., & Bell, J. (2018). Past visual experiences weigh in on body size estimation. Scientific Reports, 8:215 DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-18418-3

  • The West Australian -  https://thewest.com.au/opinion/inside-cover/illusion-can-make-us-think-were-thinner-study-ng-b88709464z

  • The Australian - http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/health/a-psychological-illusion-is-making-people-think-they-are-thinner-than-they-are/news-story/9bc06f459cd424aa16caca873c77b484

• Schweinberger, S.R., Franz, V.H., & Palermo, R. (2018). Current developments and challenges for the British Journal of Psychology. British Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12281

• Palermo, R., Jeffery, L., Lewandowsky, J., Fiorentini, C., Irons, J. L., Dawel, A., Burton, N., McKone, E., & Rhodes, G. (2018). Adaptive face coding contributes to individual differences in facial expression recognition independently of affective factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(4), 503-517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000463 

  • "Particularly Exciting Experiments in Psychology" - http://www.apa.org/pubs/highlights/peeps/issue-102.aspx

• Griffiths, S., Rhodes, G., Jeffery, L., Palermo, R. & Neumann, M.F. (2018). The average facial expression of a crowd influences impressions of individual expressions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44(2), 311-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000446  

• Neumann, M., Ng, R., Rhodes, R., & Palermo, R. (2018). Ensemble coding of face identity is not independent of the coding of individual identity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 71(6), 1357–1366. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1318409

• Rhodes, G., Neumann, M., Ewing, L., Bank, S., Read, A., Engfors, L.M., Emiechel, R., & Palermo, R. (2018). Ensemble coding of faces occurs in children and develops dissociably from coding of individual face identities. Developmental Science. 21:e12540. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12540 

2017

• Edwards, M., Stewart, E., Palermo, R., & Lah, S. (2017). Facial emotion perception in patients with epilepsy: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 83, 212-225. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.10.013 

• Caruana, N., Stieglitz Ham, H., Brock, J., Woolgar, A., Kloth, N., Palermo, R., & McArthur, G. (2017). Joint Attention Difficulties in Autistic Adults: An Interactive Eye-tracking Study. Autism, 22(4) 502-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361316676204 

• Dondzilo, L., Rieger, E., Palermo, R., Byrne, S. & Bell, J. (2017). The mediating role of rumination in the relation between attentional bias towards thin female bodies and eating disorder symptomatology. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177870 

• Ritchie, K., Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2017). Forming impressions of facial attractiveness is mandatory. Scientific Reports. 7:469 DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-00526-9 

• Hutchings, R., Palermo, R., Piguet, O., & Kumfor, F. (2017). Disrupted face processing in frontotemporal dementia: A review of the clinical and neuroanatomical evidence. Neuropsychology Review, 27 (1), 18–30 doi:10.1007/s11065-016-9340-2 

• Engfors, L.M., Jeffery, L., Gignac, G. & Palermo, R. (2017). Individual differences in adaptive norm-based coding and holistic coding are associated yet each contributes uniquely to unfamiliar face recognition ability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 43(2), 281-293 doi: 10.1037/xhp0000265 

• Palermo, R. (2017). The Function of Moods and Emotions: Comment on “Can Sadness Be Good for You? On the Cognitive, Motivational and Interpersonal Benefits of Mild Negative Affect” (Forgas, 2017). Australian Psychologist, 52, 14-17. DOI: 10.1111/ap.12237 

• Davis, J., McKone, E., Zirnsak, M., Moore, T., O'Kearney, R., Apthorp, D., & Palermo, R. (2017). Social and attention-to-detail sub-clusters of autistic traits differentially predict looking at eyes and face identity recognition ability. British Journal of Psychology, 108 (1), 191-219. DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12188 

• Rivolta, D., Lawson, R.P. & Palermo, R. (2017). More than just a problem with faces: Altered body perception in a group of congenital prosopagnosics. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Special Issue on Developmental Prosopagnosia, 70 (2), 276-286. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1174277

• White, D. Rivolta, D., Burton, A. M., Al-Janabi, S., & Palermo, R. (2017). Face matching impairment in developmental prosopagnosia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Special Issue on Developmental Prosopagnosia, 70(2), 287-297. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1173076 

• Palermo, R., Rossion, B., Rhodes, G., Laguesse, R., Tez, T., Hall, B., Albonico, A., Malaspina, M., Daini, R., Irons, J., Al-Janabi, S.,  Tayor, L., Rivolta, D., & McKone, E. (2017). Do people have insight into their face recognition abilities? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Special Issue on Developmental Prosopagnosia, 70(2), 218-233. DOI:10.1080/17470218.2016.1161058 

• Dawel, A., Wright, L., Irons, J., Dumbleton, R., Palermo, R., O’Kearney, R. & McKone, E. (2017). Perceived emotion genuineness: Normative ratings for popular facial expression stimuli and development of perceived-as-genuine and perceived-as-fake sets. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4) 1539-1562. doi:10.3758/s13428-016-0813-2 

2016

• Dalrymple, K., & Palermo, R. (2016). Guidelines for studying developmental prosopagnosia in adults and children. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 7, 73-87. DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1374 

  • "Top Ten cited in 2016". 

• Dondzilo, L., Rieger, E., Palermo, R., Byrne, S., & Bell, J. (2016). Association Between Rumination Factors and Eating Disorder Behaviours in Young Females. Advances in Eating Disorders: Theory, Research and Practice, 4(1), 84-98. doi:10.1017/s0029665112001711 

• Tobin, A., Favelle, S., & Palermo, R. (2016). Dynamic facial expressions are processed holistically, but not more holistically than static facial expressions.  Cognition and Emotion, 30(6), 1208-1221.  doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1049936 

2015 

• Dawel, A., McKone, E., O'Kearney, R., Sellbom, M., Irons, J., & Palermo, R. (2015). Elevated levels of callous unemotional traits are associated with reduced attentional cueing, with no specificity for fear or eyes. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 6, 216-228. doi:10.1037/per0000108 

• Rhodes, G., Neumann, M., Ewing, L. & Palermo, R. (2015). Reduced set averaging of face identity in children and adolescents with autism. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(7), 1391-1403. doi:10.1080/17470218.2014.981554 

• Dawel, A., Palermo, R., O'Kearney R., McKone, E. (2015). Children can discriminate the authenticity of happy but not sad or fearful facial expressions, and use an immature intensity-only strategy. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:462. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00462. 

• Kumfor, F., Hutchings, R. Irish, M., Hodges, J.R., Rhodes, G., Palermo, R., &  Piguet, O. (2015). Do I know you? Examining face and object memory in frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychologia,  71, 101-111. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.03.020

• Dawel, A., Palermo, R., O'Kearney,R., Irons, J., & McKone, E. (2015). Fearful faces drive gaze-cueing and threat bias effects in children on the look out for danger. Developmental Science, 18, 219-231. DOI: 10.1111/desc.12203 

2014

• Rivolta, D., Woolgar, A. Palermo, R., Butko, M., Schmalzl, L., & Williams, M.A. (2014). Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals abnormal fMRI activity in both the “core” and “extended” face network in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8:925. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00925 

• Marneweck, M., Palermo, R., & Hammond, G. (2014). Discrimination and recognition of facial expressions of emotion and their links with voluntary control of facial musculature in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychology, 28, 917-928. doi:10.1037/neu0000106 

• de Lissa, P., McArthur, G., Hawelka, S., Palermo, R., Mahajan, Y., Hutzler, F. (2014). Fixation location on upright and inverted faces modulates the N170. Neuropsychologia, 57, 1-11. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.02.006  

• Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., McGrillen, K., & Miller, L. (2014). The nature of facial expression recognition deficits following orbitofrontal cortex damage. Neuropsychology, 28, 613-623. doi:10.1037/neu0000059  

2013

• Willis, M.L., Dodd, H.F., & Palermo. R. (2013). The relationship between anxiety and the social judgements of approachability and trustworthiness. PLoS ONE. 8(10): e76825. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0076825 

• Palermo, R., O'Connor, K.B., Davis, J.M., Irons, J., & McKone, E. (2013). New tests to measure individual differences in matching and labelling facial expressions of emotion, and their association with ability to recognise vocal emotions and facial identity. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e68126. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068126 

• Rivolta, D. Palermo, R., & Schmalzl, L. (2013). What is overt and what is covert in congenital prosopagnosia? Neuropsychology Review, 23, 111-116. doi:10.1007/s11065-012-9223-0

2012

• Palermo, R. & Duchaine, B. (2012). Introduction to this special issue on developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29, 349-353. doi:10.1080/02643294.2012.744740 

• Dawel, A., O'Kearney,R., McKone, E., & Palermo, R. (2012). Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 36, 2288-2304. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.08.006 

• Wilson, C.E., Palermo, R., & Brock, J. (2012). Visual scan paths and recognition of facial identity in autism spectrum disorder and typical development. PLoS ONE, 7, e37681.  

• Rivolta, D., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Williams, M.A. (2012). Investigating the features of the M170 in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00045  

• Rivolta, D., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Williams, M.A. (2012). An early category-specific neural response for the perception of both places and faces. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 45-51. doi:10.1080/17588928.2011.604726

• Rivolta, D., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Coltheart, M. (2012). Covert face recognition in congenital prosopagnosia: A group study. Cortex, 48, 344-352. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2011.01.005 

 2011

• Davis, J.M., McKone, E., Dennett, H., O’Connor, K.L., O’Kearney, R., & Palermo, R. (2011). Individual differences in face recognition ability are associated with social anxiety. PLoS One, 12, e28800. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028800.

• Palermo, R., Rivolta, D., Wilson, C.E., & Jeffery, L. (2011). Adaptive face space coding in congenital prosopagnosia: Typical figural aftereffects but abnormal identity aftereffects. Neuropsychologia., 49, 3801-3812. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.039  

• McKone, E., Hall, A., Pidcock, M., Palermo, R., Wilkinson, R., Rivolta, D., Yovel, G., Davis, J.M., & O’Connor, K.B. (2011). Face ethnicity and measurement reliability affect face recognition performance in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from the Cambridge Face Memory Test – Australian. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 28, 109-146. doi:10.1080/02643294.2011.616880 

• Wilson, C.E., Palermo, R., Burton, A.M. & Brock, J. (2011). Recognition of own- and other-race faces in autism spectrum disorders. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1939-1954. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.603052 

• Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., & Burke, D. (2011). Social judgements are influenced by both facial expression and direction of eye gaze. Social Cognition, 29, 415-429. doi:10.1521/soco.2011.29.4.415

• Baggott, S., Palermo, R. & Williams, M.A. (2011). Involuntary facial expression processing: Extracting information from two simultaneously presented faces. PLoS One, 6, e22287. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022287

• Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., & Burke, D. (2011). Judging approachability on the face of it: The influence of face and body expressions on the perception of approachability. Emotion, 11, 514-523. doi:10.1037/a0022571

• Palermo, R., Willis, M.L., Rivolta, D, McKone, E., Wilson, C.E., & Calder, A.J. (2011). Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1226-1235. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.021  Free full-text.  F1000 Evaluation.  

• Baggott, S., Palermo, R., & Fox, A.M. (2011). Processing emotional category congruency between emotional facial expressions and emotional words. Cognition & Emotion, 25, 369-379. doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.488945

2010

• Susilo, T., McKone, E., Dennett, H., Darke, H., Palermo, R., Hall, A., Pidcock, M., Dawel, A., Jeffery, L., Wilson, C. E., & Rhodes, G. (2010). Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 636-664. doi:10.1080/02643294.2011.613372

• Wilson, C.E., Palermo, R., Brock, J., & Burton, A. M. (2010). Learning new faces in typically developing children and children on the autistic spectrum. Perception, 39, 1645-1658. doi:10.1068/p6727 

• Wilson, C.E., Brock, J., & Palermo, R. (2010).  Attention to social stimuli and facial identity recognition skills in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 1104-1115. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.2010.01340.x 

• Rivolta, D., Schmalzl, L., Coltheart, M., & Palermo, R. (2010). Semantic information can facilitate covert face recognition in congenital prosopagnosia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 1002-1016. doi:10.1080/13803391003662710 

• Wilson, C.E., Freeman, P., Brock, J., Burton, A.M., & Palermo, R. (2010). Facial identity recognition in the broader autism phenotype. PLoS One, 5: e12876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012876.

• Wilson, C.E., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., & Brock, J. (2010). Specificity of impaired facial identity recognition in children with suspected developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 30-45. doi:10.1080/02643294.2010.490207 

• Willis, M., Palermo, R., Burke, D., McGrillen, K., Miller, L. (2010). Orbitofrontal cortex lesions result in abnormal social judgements to emotional faces. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2182-2187. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.04.010 

• McKone, E., & Palermo, R. (2010). A strong role for nature in face recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 11, 4795-4796. doi:10.1073/pnas.1000567107 

• Willis, M.L., Palermo, R., Burke, D., Atkinson, C.M., & McArthur, G. (2010). Switching associations between facial identity and emotional expression: A behavioural and ERP study. NeuroImage, 50, 329-339. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.071 

• Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Mohamed, A., Bleasel, A., & Miller, L. (2010). The effect of unilateral amygdala removals on detecting fear from briefly presented backward-masked faces. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32, 123-131. doi:10.1080/13803390902821724 

• Palermo, R. & Rhodes, G. (2010). Is face processing automatic? In V. Coltheart (Ed). Tutorials in Visual Cognition (Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science series) (pp. 305-336). New York: Psychology Press.

 2007-2009

• Bowles, D.C., McKone, E., Dawel, A., Duchaine, B., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., Rivolta, D., Wilson, C.E., & Yovel, G. (2009). Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of aging, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 423-455. doi:10.1080/02643290903343149 

• Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R., Harris, I., & Coltheart, M. (2009) Face inversion superiority in a case of prosopagnosia following congenital brain damage: What can it tell us about the specificity and origin of face processing mechanisms? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26, 286 - 306. doi:10.1080/02643290903086904 

• Finkbeiner, M. & Palermo, R. (2009). The role of spatial attention in nonconscious processing: A comparison of face and non-face stimuli. Psychological Science, 20, 42-51. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02256.x 

• Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R., & Coltheart, M. (2008). Cognitive heterogeneity in genetically-based prosopagnosia: A family study. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, 99-117. doi:10.1348/174866407x256554 

• Sewell, C., Palermo, R., Atkinson, C., & McArthur, G. (2008). Anxiety and the neural processing of threat in faces. Neuroreport, 19, 1339-1343. doi:10.1097/wnr.0b013e32830baadf

• Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R., Green, M., Brunsdon, R., & Coltheart, M. (2008). Training of familiar face recognition and visual scan paths for faces in a child with congenital prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 704-729. doi:10.1080/02643290802299350 

• Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2007). Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact. Neuropsychologia, 45, 75-92. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.04.025 

• Rhodes, G., Yoshikawa, S., Palermo, R., Simmons, L.W., Peters, M., Lee, K., Halberstadt, J. & Crawford, J. (2007). Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism. Perception, 36, 1244-1252. doi:10.1068/p5712 

 2002-2005

• Rhodes, G., Halberstadt, J., Jeffery, L., & Palermo, R. (2005). The attractiveness of average faces is not a generalized mere exposure effect. Social Cognition, 23, 205-217. doi:10.1521/soco.2005.23.3.205 

• Rhodes, G., Lee, K., Palermo, R., Weiss, M., Yoshikawa, S., Clissa, P., Williams, T., Peters, M., Winkler, C., & Jeffery, L. (2005). Attractiveness of own-race, other-race and mixed-race faces. Perception, 34, 319-340. doi:10.1068/p5191 

• Palermo, R., & Coltheart, M. (2004). Photographs of facial expression: accuracy, response times, and ratings of intensity. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 634-638. doi:10.3758/bf03206544 

• Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2003). Change detection in the flicker paradigm: Do faces have an advantage? Visual Cognition, 10, 683-713. doi:10.1080/13506280344000059 

• Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2002). The influence of divided attention on holistic face perception. Cognition, 82, 225-257. doi:10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00160-3  

• Faulkner, T.F., Rhodes, G., Palermo, R., Pellicano, E., & Ferguson, D. (2002). Recognizing the un-real McCoy: Priming and the modularity of face recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 327-334. doi:10.3758/bf03196289