Associate Professor Jess Taubert
Principal Research Fellow, ARC Funded
School of Psychology
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Researcher biography
Dr. Jess Taubert was awarded the ARC Future Fellowship and moved to the University of Queensland in 2021.
She completed a Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours at Macaquarie University (2005) and a PhD in Psychology at the University of Sydney (2009). In 2009 she accepted a postdoctoral position at Emory University (GA, USA). Here she worked jointly with Lisa Parr at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Philippe Rochat in the Department of Psychology. In 2011 Dr. Taubert was awarded a FSR incoming postdoctoral fellowship by UCLouvain and moved to Belgium to train as a neurophysiologist (supervised by Rufin Vogels, Wim Vanduffel, and Bruno Rossion). After briefly returning to Australia, Dr. Taubert was appointed as an Intramural Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in the US (2016 – 2021). During this time she worked with Leslie Ungerleider, Chris Baker, David Leopold, and Elisabeth ("Betsy") Murray among others.
Journal Articles
Moses, Eleanor, Nelson, Nicole, Taubert, Jessica and Pegna, Alan J. (2024). Oxytocin differentially modulates the early neural responses to faces and non-social stimuli. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 19 (1) nsae010, 1-10. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsae010
Taubert, Jessica and Japee, Shruti (2024). Real Face Value: The Processing of Naturalistic Facial Expressions in the Macaque Inferior Temporal Cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1-17. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_02108
Azadi, Reza, Lopez, Emily, Taubert, Jessica, Patterson, Amanda and Afraz, Arash (2024). Inactivation of face-selective neurons alters eye movements when free viewing faces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121 (3) e2309906121, e2309906121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309906121
Katti, Harish, Valiyamattam, Georgitta, Taubert, Jessica and Nadig, Aparna (2023). Editorial: Improving the quality of life of autistic people and their caregivers from diverse backgrounds: methods and approaches. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 1242236, 1-3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1242236
Bouyer, Loren N., Arnold, Derek H., Johnston, Alan and Taubert, Jessica (2023). Predictive extrapolation effects can have a greater impact on visual decisions, while visual adaptation has a greater impact on conscious visual experience. Consciousness and Cognition, 115 103583. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2023.103583
Taubert, Jessica, Wally, Samantha and Dixson, Barnaby J. (2023). Preliminary evidence of an increased susceptibility to face pareidolia in postpartum women. Biology Letters, 19 (9) 20230126, 20230126. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0126
Azadi, Reza, Lopez, Emily, Taubert, Jessica, Patterson, Amanda and Afraz, Arash (2023). The causal link between neural activity in inferotemporal cortex and free viewing eye movements. Journal of Vision, 23 (9), 5739. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5739
Brannigan, Kyla, Kumar, Rohini, Wild, Hannah, Goyal, Shivani, Baker, Chris, Taubert, Jessica and Japee, Shruti (2023). Is the processing of facial expression and head orientation dissociated in the human brain?. Journal of Vision, 23 (9), 5627. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5627
Taubert, Jessica, Japee, Shruti, Patterson, Amanda and Bliss-Moreau, Eliza (2023). Interaction vs observation mode in the macaque visual cortex. Journal of Vision, 23 (9), 5132. doi: 10.1167/jov.23.9.5132
Long, Houqiu, Peluso, Natalie, Baker, Chris I., Japee, Shruti and Taubert, Jessica (2023). A database of heterogeneous faces for studying naturalistic expressions. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 5383, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-32659-5
Sargeant, Maeve M., Rana, Kunjan, Taubert, Jessica, Ungerleider, Leslie G. and Merriam, Elisha P. (2022). Dynamic binding of faces and bodies when recognizing emotional expression. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 4244. doi: 10.1167/jov.22.14.4244
Rana, Kunjan, Sargeant, Maeve, Taubert, Jessica, Ungerleider, Leslie and Merriam, Elisha (2022). Gamma-band connectivity suggests a functional pathway from the amygdala to the anterior temporal lobe during face processing. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 3836. doi: 10.1167/jov.22.14.3836
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan G., Patterson, Amanda and Baker, Chris I. (2022). Beyond faces: Characterizing the response of the amygdala to visual stimuli. Journal of Vision, 22 (14), 3054. doi: 10.1167/jov.22.14.3054
Taubert, Jessica, Japee, Shruti, Patterson, Amanda, Wild, Hannah, Goyal, Shivani, Yu, David and Ungerleider, Leslie G. (2022). A broadly tuned network for affective body language in the macaque brain. Science Advances, 8 (47) eadd6865, eadd6865. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.add6865
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan G., Tardiff, Clarissa T., Patterson, Amanda, Yu, David and Baker, Chris I. (2022). Clutter substantially reduces selectivity for peripheral faces in the macaque brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42 (35), 6739-6750. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.0232-22.2022
Flessert, Molly, Taubert, Jessica and Beran, Michael J. (2022). Assessing the perception of face pareidolia in children (Homo sapiens), rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 137 (2), 1-12. doi: 10.1037/com0000320
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan G., Tardiff, Clarissa T., Koele, Elissa A., Kumar, Susheel, Messinger, Adam and Ungerleider, Leslie G. (2022). The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 17 (11), 965-976. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsac031
Wardle, Susan G., Paranjape, Sanika, Taubert, Jessica and Baker, Chris I. (2022). Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (5) e2117413119, e2117413119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117413119
Taubert, Jessica, Ritchie, J. Brendan, Ungerleider, Leslie G. and Baker, Christopher I. (2021). One object, two networks? Assessing the relationship between the face and body-selective regions in the primate visual system. Brain Structure and Function, 227 (4), 1423-1438. doi: 10.1007/s00429-021-02420-7
Decramer, Thomas, Premereur, Elsie, Zhu, Qi, Van Paesschen, Wim, van Loon, Johannes, Vanduffel, Wim, Taubert, Jessica, Janssen, Peter and Theys, Tom (2021). Single-unit recordings reveal the selectivity of a human face area. The Journal of Neuroscience, 41 (45), 9340-9349. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.0349-21.2021
Alais, David, Xu, Yiben, Wardle, Susan G. and Taubert, Jessica (2021). A shared mechanism for facial expression in human faces and face pareidolia. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 288 (1954). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0966
Keys, Robert T, Taubert, Jessica and Wardle, Susan G (2021). A visual search advantage for illusory faces in objects. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 83 (5), 1942-1953. doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02267-4
Taubert, Jessica and Japee, Shruti (2021). Using FACS to trace the neural specializations underlying the recognition of facial expressions: a commentary on Waller et al. (2020). Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 120, 75-77. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.10.016
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan G and Ungerleider, Leslie G (2020). What does a "face cell" want?'. Progress in Neurobiology, 195 101880, 101880. doi: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101880
Taubert, Jessica, Japee, Shruti, Murphy, Aidan P, Tardiff, Clarissa T, Koele, Elissa A, Kumar, Susheel, Leopold, David A and Ungerleider, Leslie G (2020). Parallel processing of facial expression and head orientation in the macaque brain. The Journal of Neuroscience, 40 (42), 8119-8131. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0524-20.2020
Wardle, Susan G, Taubert, Jessica, Teichmann, Lina and Baker, Chris I (2020). Rapid and dynamic processing of face pareidolia in the human brain. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 4518, 4518. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18325-8
Taubert, Jessica, Flessert, Molly, Liu, Ning and Ungerleider, Leslie G (2019). Intranasal oxytocin selectively modulates the behavior of rhesus monkeys in an expression matching task. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 15187, 15187. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51422-3
Rossion, Bruno and Taubert, Jessica (2019). What can we learn about human individual face recognition from experimental studies in monkeys?. Vision Research, 157, 142-158. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.03.012
Taubert, Jessica, Flessert, Molly, Wardle, Susan G, Basile, Benjamin M, Murphy, Aidan P, Murray, Elisabeth A and Ungerleider, Leslie G (2018). Amygdala lesions eliminate viewing preferences for faces in rhesus monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115 (31), 8043-8048. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807245115
Taubert, Jessica, Van Belle, Goedele, Vogels, Rufin and Rossion, Bruno (2018). The impact of stimulus size and orientation on individual face coding in monkey face-selective cortex. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 10339, 10339. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-28144-z
Paterson, Helen M., Luppino, Daniella, Calderwood, Clare, MacDougall, Hamish G., Taubert, Jessica and Kemp, Richard I. (2017). Can training improve eyewitness identification? The effect of internal feature focus on memory for faces. Psychology, Crime and Law, 23 (10), 927-945. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2017.1346099
Rossion, Bruno and Taubert, Jessica (2017). Commentary: The code for facial identity in the primate brain. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11 550. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00550
Wardle, Susan, Seymour, Kiley and Taubert, Jessica (2017). Decoding face pareidolia in the human brain with fMRI. Journal of Vision, 17 (10) 294. doi: 10.1167/17.10.294
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan, Flessert, Molly, Leopold, David and Ungerleider, Leslie (2017). Evidence for face pareidolia in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Vision, 17 (10) 845. doi: 10.1167/17.10.845
Flessert, Molly, Taubert, Jessica, Liu, Ning and Ungerleider, Leslie (2017). Rhesus monkeys are able to discriminate facial identity and expression. Journal of Vision, 17 (10) 1006. doi: 10.1167/17.10.1006
Taubert, Jessica, Wardle, Susan G, Flessert, Molly, Leopold, David A and Ungerleider, Leslie G (2017). Face pareidolia in the rhesus monkey. Current Biology, 27 (16), 2505-2509.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.075
Kok, Rebecca, Taubert, Jessica, Van der Burg, Erik, Rhodes, Gillian and Alais, David (2017). Face familiarity promotes stable identity recognition: exploring face perception using serial dependence. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (3) 160685, 160685. doi: 10.1098/rsos.160685
Taubert, Jessica, van Golde, Celine and Verstraten, Frans A. J. (2017). Who is the usual suspect? Evidence of a selection bias toward faces that make direct eye contact in a lineup task. i-Perception, 8 (1). doi: 10.1177/2041669517690411
Premereur, Elsie, Taubert, Jessica, Janssen, Peter, Vogels, Rufin and Vanduffel, Wim (2016). Effective connectivity reveals largely independent parallel networks of face and body patches. Current Biology, 26 (24), 3269-3279. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.059
Taubert, Jessica, Weldon, Kimberly B. and Parr, Lisa A. (2016). Robust representations of individual faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) but not monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Cognition, 20 (2), 321-329. doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-1054-6
Taubert, Jessica, van Golde, Celine and Verstraten, Frans A. J. (2016). Faces in context: does face perception depend on the orientation of the visual scene?. Perception, 45 (10), 1184-1192. doi: 10.1177/0301006616656866
Taubert, Jessica, Van der Burg, Erik and Alais, David (2016). Are we looking for love in all the wrong faces?. Journal of Vision, 16 (12) 494. doi: 10.1167/16.12.494
Taubert, Jessica, Alais, David and Burr, David (2016). Different coding strategies for the perception of stable and changeable facial attributes. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 32239, 1-7. doi: 10.1038/srep32239
Smith, Carolynn L., Taubert, Jessica, Weldon, Kimberly and Evans, Christopher S. (2016). Individual recognition based on communication behaviour of male fowl. Behavioural Processes, 125, 101-105. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.02.012
Taubert, Jessica, Van der Burg, Erik and Alais, David (2016). Love at second sight: Sequential dependence of facial attractiveness in an on-line dating paradigm. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 22740. doi: 10.1038/srep22740
Taubert, Jessica, Goffaux, Valerie, Van Belle, Goedele, Vanduffel, Wim and Vogels, Rufin (2016). The impact of orientation filtering on face-selective neurons in monkey inferior temporal cortex. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 21189, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/srep21189
Taubert, Jessica and Alais, David (2016). Serial dependence in face attractiveness judgements tolerates rotations around the yaw axis but not the roll axis. Visual Cognition, 24 (2), 103-114. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2016.1196803
Taubert, Jessica, Van Belle, Goedele, Vanduffel, Wim, Rossion, Bruno and Vogels, Rufin (2015). Neural correlate of the Thatcher face illusion in a monkey face-selective patch. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35 (27), 9872-9878. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0446-15.2015
Taubert, Jessica, Van Belle, Goedele, Vanduffel, Wim, Rossion, Bruno and Vogels, Rufin (2015). The effect of face inversion for neurons inside and outside fMRI-defined face-selective cortical regions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 113 (5), 1644-55. doi: 10.1152/jn.00700.2014
Weldon, Kimberly B., Taubert, Jessica, Smith, Carolynn L. and Parr, Lisa A. (2013). How the Thatcher illusion reveals evolutionary differences in the face processing of primates. Animal Cognition, 16 (5), 691-700. doi: 10.1007/s10071-013-0604-4
Parr, Lisa A, Taubert, Jessica, Little, Anthony C and Hancock, Peter J B (2012). The organization of conspecific face space in nonhuman primates. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65 (12), 2411-34. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2012.693110
Taubert, Jessica, Qureshi, Annum A and Parr, Lisa A (2012). The composite face effect in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 126 (4), 339-46. doi: 10.1037/a0027287
Taubert, Jessica, Aagten-Murphy, David and Parr, Lisa A (2012). A comparative study of face processing using scrambled faces. Perception, 41 (4), 460-473. doi: 10.1068/p7151
Taubert, Jessica and Parr, Lisa A. (2012). The perception of two-tone Mooney faces in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Cognitive Neuroscience, 3 (1), 21-28. doi: 10.1080/17588928.2011.578737
Parr, Lisa A. and Taubert, Jessica (2011). The importance of surface-based cues for face discrimination in non-human primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278 (1714), 1964-1972. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2333
Parr, Lisa A., Siebert, Erin and Taubert, Jessica (2011). Effect of familiarity and viewpoint on face recognition in chimpanzees. Perception, 40 (7), 863-872. doi: 10.1068/p6971
Taubert, Jessica, Apthorp, Deborah, Aagten-Murphy, David and Alais, David (2011). The role of holistic processing in face perception: Evidence from the face inversion effect. Vision Research, 51 (11), 1273-1278. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2011.04.002
Taubert, Jessica and Alais, David (2011). Identity aftereffects, but not composite effects, are contingent on contrast polarity. Perception, 40 (4), 422-436. doi: 10.1068/p6874
Taubert, Jessica and Parr, Lisa A. (2011). Geometric distortions affect face recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Cognition, 14 (1), 35-43. doi: 10.1007/s10071-010-0341-x
Taubert, Jessica (2010). Evidence of human-like, holistic face processing in spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 124 (1), 57-65. doi: 10.1037/a0017704
Taubert, Jessica, Marsh, Pamela J and Shaw, Tracey (2010). When you turn the other cheek: a preference for novel viewpoints of familiar faces. Perception, 39 (3), 429-432. doi: 10.1068/p6627
Taubert, Jessica and Parr, Lisa A (2009). Visual expertise does not predict the composite effect across species: a comparison between spider (Ateles geoffroyi) and rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys. Brain and Cognition, 71 (3), 187-95. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.09.002
Taubert, Jessica and Alais, David (2009). The composite illusion requires composite face stimuli to be biologically plausible. Vision Research, 49 (14), 1877-1885. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.025
Taubert, Jessica (2009). Chimpanzee faces are ‘special’ to humans. Perception, 38 (3), 343-356. doi: 10.1068/p6254
Taubert, Jessica and Chekaluk, Eugene (2008). The effect of temporal and spatial frequency on phantom-contour detection. Perception, 37 (1), 50-56. doi: 10.1068/p5711
Burke, Darren, Taubert, Jessica and Higman, Talia (2007). Are face representations viewpoint dependent? A stereo advantage for generalising across different views of faces. Vision Research, 47 (16), 2164-2169. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.04.018
Conference Papers
Grasser, Lana, Haller, Simone, Taubert, Jessica, Aggarwal, Nakul, Hansen, Eleanor, Naim, Reut, Kenwood, Margaux, Bui, Hong, Jeong, Annie, Williams, Lisa, Kalin, Ned and Brotman, Melissa (2023). Adapting the Behavioral 'Human Intruder Paradigm' to Probe Neural Threat Processing Across Species. NEW YORK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC.
Paranjape, Sanika, Wardle, Susan G., Taubert, Jessica and Baker, Chris I. (2021). Illusory faces are more likely to be perceived as male than female. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting VSS 2021, Online, 21-26 May 2021. Rockville, MD United States: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). doi: 10.1167/jov.21.9.1990
Data Collection
Loren Bouyer, Derek H. Arnold, Alan Johnston and Jessica Taubert (2023). Adaptation and Extrapolation. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/1d6be63