| Description |
xi, 481 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
The face : organ of communication : The face as a biological structure ; Variations in the human face ; Abnormal faces ; The muscles and expressive movements of the face ; Brain regions involved in visual perception ; Brain regions selectively responsive to faces ; Organisation of face-responsive regions -- The science and methods of face perception research : To err is human: and it can be highly informative ; Unavoidable errors: the effects of brain injury ; The time it takes to do things: reaction times and what they can tell us ; Priming and interference: important and widely used paradigms ; Other sources of information: preferences and adaptation ; Eye movements: where you look, and why it matters ; Understanding and manipulating images: contributions of computer graphics ; Functional and computational models: key types of theory ; Recording what happens in the brain ; The broader picture -- Social categories : The pervasiveness of social categories ; Physical differences between faces: cues to age ; Sex differences between faces ; Racial differences between faces ; Using cues to age, sex and race ; Categorical perception and adaptation effects for physical characteristics ; Perception of attractiveness ; Attractiveness and evolution ; Hormonal influences on attractiveness ; Other social characteristics ; Stereotype activation ; Faces that look untrustworthy or threatening: the role of the amygdala ; A systematic approach to social perception -- Messages from facial movements : The facial muscles ; The universality thesis ; Perceiving and producing facial expressions of emotion ; Dimensional models of facial expression recognition ; Category models of facial expression recognition ; Emotion-specific mechanisms ; Identity and expression ; Talking and lipreading ; Why do we lipread? ; When and where does audiovisual fusion occur? ; Multimodal recognition of emotion ; Bringing the neurology and the psychology together -- |
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Gaze and attention : How do we know where someone else is looking? ; Gaze involves more than just the eyes ; Neural mechanisms of gaze perception ; What uses do we make of gaze? ; Gaze and mental state ; Gaze cueing and attention ; How faces grab our attention ; The social context of gaze ; Looking away: why we sometimes need to avert our gaze ; Beyond gaze: face-to-face communication and video-mediated communication -- Recognising faces : Face features and configuration ; Why are upside-down faces hard to recognise? ; But, identifying the nature of configural processing is not quite so easy! ; More potential cues to identity: shape and surface pigmentation ; Movement and face recognition ; Distinctiveness and caricature ; Other-race and other-age effects ; Prototypes and adaptation effects ; Visual representation of faces in memory ; How do faces become familiar? ; When faces are not remembered: everyday memory for faces and eyewitness testimony ; Witness reconstructions of faces ; How can we improve the likeness gained form composite systems? ; Witness identification of faces: photospreads, line-ups and video parades ; Beyond witnessing: CCTV on trial ; Individual differences in face recognition and photo-matching -- Beyond the face: person perception : Accessing semantic information and names ; Why are names so hard to retrieve? ; The Bruce and Young (1986) model ; Repetition and semantic priming ; Modelling repetition and semantic priming ; Where is semantic information about familiar people stored in the brain? ; Covert recognition in prosopagnosia ; Context, appraisal and recognition ; Relations between voice and face recognition ; Faces and voices in person perception ; What's it all about, Alfie? -- Nature and nurture : Perception of faces by newborn babies ; The development of face perception after birth ; Perception of expressive and social signals from faces in infancy ; Development during childhood ; Face perception and recognition across the lifespan ; Atypical development ; Are faces the 'special ones'? ; Does the brain use face-specific mechanisms? ; More on localisation ; Aftermath. |
| Summary |
Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces - our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In recent years there has been genuine progress in understanding how our brains derive all these different messages from faces and what can happen when one or other of the structures involved is damaged. Face Perception provides an up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped develop and shape the field over the past 30 years. It encompasses topics as diverse as the visual information our brains can exploit when we look at faces, whether prejudicial attitudes can affect how we see faces, and how people with neurodevelopmental disorders see faces. The material is digested and summarised in a way that is accessible to students, within a structure that focuses on the different things we can do with faces. It offers a compelling synthesis of behavioural, neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience approaches to develop a distinctive point of view of the area. The book concludes by reviewing what is known about the development of face processing and re-examines the question of what makes faces 'special'. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in studying face perception and social cognition. |
| Subject |
Face perception.
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Facial expression.
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Pattern Recognition, Visual -- physiology. |
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Face -- physiology. |
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Facial Expression. |
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Recognition (Psychology) -- physiology. |
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Social Perception. |
| Added Author |
Young, Andrew W.
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| ISBN |
9781841698786 (hbk) |
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1841698784 (hbk) |
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