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Face processing : psychological, neuropsychological, and applied perspectives /

How do we recognise familiar faces? What factors determine facial attractiveness? How does face processing develop in infants and children? Why do face reconstruction systems, such as Photofit and E-Fit, produce such poor likenesses of the original face? Face Processing: psychological, neuropsychol...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hole, Graham
Other Authors: Bourne, Victoria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Face perception.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I: Psychological Perspectives
  • 1. How do we recognise faces
  • 2. Perceiving emotion and expression in faces
  • 3. Further aspects of face processing
  • 4. Development of face processing in babies
  • 5. Development of face processing in children and adults
  • II: Neuropsychological Perspectives
  • 6. Clinical neuropsychology of face recognition
  • 7. Developmental neuropsychological disorders of face processing
  • 8. Cognitive neuroscience of face recognition
  • 9. Are faces special?
  • III: Applied Perspectives
  • 10. Technology and face processing
  • 11. Own group biases in face processing
  • 12. Eyewitness testimony
  • Conclusions and Discussion.