Recent theoretical approaches to understanding face recognition have used converging
evidence from studies of normal face processing, everyday errors and patterns of …

The study of human face processing has advanced considerably in recent years, from
consisting of a collection of isolated empirical facts and anecdotal observations to a …

Humans are social beings, and faces convey an enormous range of social information about
identity, age, gender, mood, ethnicity, or current state and focus of attention of people, and …

Evidence from natural and induced errors of face recognition, from the effects of different
cues on resolving errors, and from the latencies to make different decisions about seen …

Much early work in the psychology of face processing was hampered by a failure to think
carefully about task demands. Recently our understanding of the processes involved in the …

Face recognition impairments are often found in the context of brain injury involving the right
cerebral hemisphere. Recognition impairments can be dissociated from impairments …

In September 1993, Bob Johnston organized an International Conference on Face
Processing under the auspices of the Welsh Branch of the British Psychological Society. I …

Is face recognition 'special,'in the sense of relying on functionally and anatomically distinct
mechanisms from those required for other kinds of pattern recognition? A number of different …

There is growing evidence that face recognition is “special” but less certainty concerning the
way in which it is special. The authors review and compare previous proposals and their …