Richard Russell, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented a poster titled "The use of

shape and pigmentation information across the spectrum of face recognition ability" at the Annual

Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 2009. The authors presented work

addressing the hypothesis that the ability to perceive certain low-level visual features underlies

face recognition ability. The poster was co-authored by G. Chatterjee and K. Nakayama. The

same authors presented a poster titled "Non-face visual memory impairments in developmental

prosopagnosia" at the Naples conference. This poster presented evidence supporting the notion

that general visual memory ability predicts face memory ability.