Colin W G Clifford

Biographic Data

ID5759665
NAMEColin W G Clifford
GIVEN NAMESColin W G
FAMILY NAMEClifford
SIGNATURECLIFFORD C W G
AFFILIATIONSUNSW Sydney
ORCID0000-0003-1043-6118
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The role of (observed) gaze behaviour in identity recognition

    Open AccessLindsay Peterson, Lindsay M Peterson et al.ARTICLEPsychonomic Bulletin & Review2026

    Recognising familiar people is an important function of the human visual system that supports daily social interactions. In addition to static visual cues (e.g., face shape and texture), biological motion cues such as idiosyncratic facial motion and gait contribute to identity recognition. Surprisingly, recent research has indicated an individuals’ eye movements exhibit idiosyncratic patterns that contain identifiable information, though it is la…

  • Image primitives supporting perception of animate forms

    Open AccessLindsay Peterson, Lindsay M Peterson et al.ARTICLECognition2025

    The human visual system can recognise familiar forms, most notably faces, in other objects or patterns, a phenomenon known as pareidolia. The patterns that elicit pareidolia range from meaningful to ambiguous and random images, making it hard to generalise across the featural or configurational properties that trigger different types of pareidolia. Here, we aim to characterise the minimal stimuli associated with different types of pareidolia and …

  • Image saliency predicts the expected looking behaviour of other agents

    Open AccessLindsay Peterson, Lindsay M Peterson et al.ARTICLECognition2025

    When we look at a visual scene, salient features, such as a region of high contrast or a familiar object, attract our attention. Here, we examined how image saliency-based on computational models developed to predict human eye movements-influences how human observers expect the visual attention of others to be directed. We created animations in which a cone-shaped object (the agent) 'looks' at complex images displayed in a 3D scene. The agent's l…

  • Is there a ‘zone of eye contact’ within the borders of the face

    Open AccessColin J Palmer, Sophia G Bracken et al.ARTICLECognition2022

  • Face detection from patterns of shading and shadows

    Open AccessColin J Palmer, Erin Goddard et al.ARTICLECognition2022

  • A sparkle in the eye

    Open AccessColin J Palmer, Yumiko Otsuka et al.ARTICLECognition2020

  • Are you looking at me?” How children’s gaze judgments improve with age

    Isabelle Mareschal, Yumiko Otsuka et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2016

    Adults' judgments of another person's gaze reflect both sensory (e.g., perceptual) and nonsensory (e.g., decisional) processes. We examined how children's performance on a gaze categorization task develops over time by varying uncertainty in the stimulus presented to 6- to 11- year-olds (n = 57). We found that younger children responded "direct" over a wider range of gaze deviations. We also found that increasing uncertainty led to an increase in…

  • A Bayesian approach to person perception

    Open AccessColin W G Clifford, Isabelle Mareschal et al.ARTICLEConsciousness and Cognition2015