Muller, M., Dobbins, I. & Gauthier, I.. Visual Abilities Predict the Content and Quality of Image Descriptions.

Chun, T.-Y., Cha, O., Bi, Y., & Gauthier, I. A Common Ensemble Perception Factor for Objects and Faces Strongly Related to General Intelligence.

Gauthier, I. Hyperrealism in AI face detection is context-dependent and predicted
by object recognition ability.

Smithson, C.J., Gronau, N., & Gauthier, I. High-level visual discrimination abilities predict memory for image location as a function of meaningfulness.

The Community Foundation of Louisville awards the Lisa M. Quesenberry Foundation scholarship. Lisa was a graduate student in psychology in the early 90’s who died of juvenile diabetes. Her family, in her memory, set up a fund which awards the grant to a female student. This student must be studying psychology and must have overcome significant personal challenges to pursue their education.

Congratulations to Conor Smithson for winning the  Provost’s Pathbreaking Discovery Award! This premier award from the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School celebrates doctoral students who demonstrate truly exceptional research and scholarship.

Conor won it based on his outstanding publication in Annual Review of Psychology. Annual Review in Psychology holds the #1 ranking in both “Psychology (Science)” and “Psychology, Multidisciplinary (Social Science)” categories, with a 2023 impact factor of 23.6. Notably, this article is an expansion of the written portion of his Qualifying exam (MAP).

Smithson, C., Gauthier, I. (2026). Is domain-general object recognition ability a novel construct? Annual Review of Psychology, invited review.