John Towler

1.0k total citations
23 papers, 693 citations indexed

About

John Towler is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Towler has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 693 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 11 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in John Towler's work include Face Recognition and Perception (22 papers), Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (15 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). John Towler is often cited by papers focused on Face Recognition and Perception (22 papers), Visual Attention and Saliency Detection (15 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (9 papers). John Towler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Portugal. John Towler's co-authors include Martin Eimer, Andrew W. Young, D. M. Burt, Clare Sutherland, Isabel M. Santos, Julian A. Oldmeadow, Angela Gosling, Bradley Duchaine, Giulia Mattavelli and Aziz U. R. Asghar and has published in prestigious journals such as Cerebral Cortex, Cognition and Neuropsychologia.

In The Last Decade

John Towler

21 papers receiving 686 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Towler 606 425 224 61 50 23 693
Constantin Rezlescu 426 0.7× 299 0.7× 103 0.5× 44 0.7× 36 0.7× 20 513
Moqian Tian 460 0.8× 246 0.6× 166 0.7× 86 1.4× 5 0.1× 14 610
Jean H. Searcy 1.1k 1.8× 489 1.2× 423 1.9× 194 3.2× 4 0.1× 7 1.1k
Allan McNeill 442 0.7× 239 0.6× 246 1.1× 94 1.5× 6 0.1× 9 521
Susanne Schmidt 287 0.5× 213 0.5× 65 0.3× 173 2.8× 9 0.2× 17 417
Edwin Burns 399 0.7× 188 0.4× 152 0.7× 57 0.9× 8 0.2× 26 447
Johanna Lovén 283 0.5× 193 0.5× 67 0.3× 51 0.8× 5 0.1× 9 400
Romi Zäske 420 0.7× 368 0.9× 33 0.1× 66 1.1× 13 0.3× 25 553
Caroline Michel 835 1.4× 522 1.2× 234 1.0× 113 1.9× 2 0.0× 17 902
Mélanie Perron 297 0.5× 205 0.5× 45 0.2× 111 1.8× 5 0.1× 23 432

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Towler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Towler

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All Works

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Davies-Thompson, Jodie, et al.. (2024). Face Feature Change Detection Ability in Developmental Prosopagnosia and Super-Recognisers. Brain Sciences. 14(6). 561–561. 2 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2018). Holistic face perception is impaired in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex. 108. 112–126. 23 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2017). Face identity matching is selectively impaired in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex. 89. 11–27. 17 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2016). Reduced sensitivity to contrast signals from the eye region in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex. 81. 64–78. 22 indexed citations
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Towler, John & Martin Eimer. (2016). Electrophysiological evidence for parts and wholes in visual face memory. Cortex. 83. 246–258. 10 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2016). The Cognitive and Neural Basis of Developmental Prosopagnosia. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70(2). 316–344. 38 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2015). Facial misidentifications arise from the erroneous activation of visual face memory. Neuropsychologia. 77. 387–399. 8 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2015). The activation of visual face memory and explicit face recognition are delayed in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia. 75. 538–547. 30 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2015). Facial identity and facial expression are initially integrated at visual perceptual stages of face processing. Neuropsychologia. 80. 115–125. 44 indexed citations
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Towler, John, et al.. (2015). The Focus of Spatial Attention Determines the Number and Precision of Face Representations in Working Memory. Cerebral Cortex. 26(6). 2530–2540. 17 indexed citations
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Towler, John & Martin Eimer. (2014). Early stages of perceptual face processing are confined to the contralateral hemisphere: Evidence from the N170 component. Cortex. 64. 89–101. 19 indexed citations
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Towler, John, Angela Gosling, Bradley Duchaine, & Martin Eimer. (2014). Normal perception of Mooney faces in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence from the N170 component and rapid neural adaptation. Journal of Neuropsychology. 10(1). 15–32. 16 indexed citations
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Towler, John & Martin Eimer. (2013). The N250r component indexes holistic perception of individual facial identity. Journal of Vision. 13(9). 170–170.
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Sutherland, Clare, Julian A. Oldmeadow, Isabel M. Santos, et al.. (2013). Social inferences from faces: Ambient images generate a three-dimensional model. Cognition. 127(1). 105–118. 288 indexed citations
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Towler, John, Angela Gosling, Brad Duchaine, & Martin Eimer. (2012). The face sensitive N170 component in developmental prosopagnosia: effects of stimulus type and inversion. Perception. 41. 247–247. 1 indexed citations
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Mattavelli, Giulia, Timothy J. Andrews, Aziz U. R. Asghar, John Towler, & Andrew W. Young. (2012). Response of face-selective brain regions to trustworthiness and gender of faces. Neuropsychologia. 50(9). 2205–2211. 35 indexed citations
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Towler, John, Angela Gosling, Bradley Duchaine, & Martin Eimer. (2012). The face-sensitive N170 component in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia. 50(14). 3588–3599. 53 indexed citations

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