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Another You is an animated 2D graduate thesis film. The entire film, including the credits, is 4 minutes 45 seconds long. The production phase went from September 2018 to May 2019. This story is about a housewife who tries to escape from her daily life. Her escape takes place at the dinner table. The housewife has been busy with cooking and serving her family, but no one really cares about her, which makes her very angry and she abruptly leaves the table and everyone is shocked. She runs upstairs and to a hallway with many doors and moves from one door to the next, opening each and seeing scenes from her dreary life. At one point, she notices other doors across the hallway. Behind these doors, she sees herself in other lives and taking roads that she has missed taking in her own life. As she follows her fantasy selves through many different life possibilities, she is confronted by one of her fantasy selves, who leaves her alone. As her fantasy ends and she finds herself at the dinner. Everyone in her family begins to pay attention to her, showing her finally that they really do care for her. Another You is a 2D animation that was made using many software programs, including Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and TVPaint Animation. The final output format was 1080HD with a high-quality stereophonic track.

Faces are, arguably, the most important stimulus in our lives. Yet, we understand very little about what information is used to recognize faces. Two theories exist in the literature on this topic. First, it is widely believed that successful face recognition depends on the ability to utilize configural, or holistic, information about the face. Second, many have speculated that attention to the eye region of the face is essential for successful face recognition. However, few studies, none with children, have directly evaluated this relationship by examining individual differences in face processing. Thus, the goal of the following studies was to examine how individual differences in face recognition skills are predicted by configural processing of the face and, in particular, attention to the eye region. Across four experiments, children completed face recognition tasks using an eye tracker, tasks of configural processing, and an object recognition task. Results from Experiments 1 and 2 support the notion that attention to the eye region and configural processing of faces as measured by the Part-Whole Task are predictive of face recognition scores as measured by the Cambridge Face Memory Task for Children. Furthermore, these experiments provide preliminary evidence that attention to the outer areas of the face, such as the forehead, may inhibit face recognition ability. Experiment 3 generally replicated these findings, with a few exceptions, by examining a pre-selected group of children and subsequently comparing high and low performers on the Cambridge Face Memory Task. Finally, Experiment 4 examined six children with developmental prosopagnosia. Results from this experiment suggest that children with prosopagnosia are a very heterogeneous group. The results of these studies generally support three hypotheses: 1. Children who demonstrate greater attention to the eye region perform better on tasks of face recognition, 2. Higher scores on tests of configural face processing predict higher scores on tasks of face recognition, and 3. Children who demonstrate a greater degree of configural face processing are more likely to attend to the eye region of the face (Experiment 2).

In binocular vision, performance may be superior or inferior to monocular performance depending upon the stimuli presented to each eye. In addition, monocular or binocular visual performance may be affected by the presence of features surrounding a target stimulus. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of interocular stimulus similarities on a foveal acuity task in normally sighted children and adults. Liquid crystal shutter goggles synchronized with the monitor frame rate were used to present a Landolt C and surround bars to one or both eyes, in the following four viewing conditions. • Monocular: the Landolt C surrounded by bars was presented to the tested eye while the non-tested eye was occluded with a black opaque patch. • Binocular: the Landolt C surrounded by bars was presented to both eyes. • Dichoptic: the Landolt C was presented to the tested eye and flanking bars were presented to the non-tested eye. • Half-binocular: the Landolt C was presented to the tested eye and flanking bars were presented to both eyes. Discrimination of the orientation of a Landolt C was measured under each condition in 56 normally sighted children (7 to 14 years of age) and 22 adults (21 to 38 years of age). The effect of the surround bars (crowding) was tested in a subgroup of 9 children, and 10 adults. Across all age groups acuity was significantly better in the binocular condition than in the other three viewing conditions (binocular summation), and was significantly better in the half-binocular than in the dichoptic condition. In children, but not in adults, acuity was significantly better without than with bars. Interocular similarities may explain the enhanced visual acuity in the half-binocular condition in comparison with the dichoptic condition for all age groups tested. The results suggest that interocular interactions underpinning discrimination under these viewing conditions are developed in early childhood. The foveal crowding effect is immature at the beginning of school age, and maturation involves a reduction of this effect. These findings may have implications for the design of stimuli for binocular vision training therapies.