Recent developments in neuroimaging research support the increased use of naturalistic
stimulus material such as film, avatars, or androids. These stimuli allow for a better …

The face is one of the most important stimuli carrying social meaning. Thanks to the fast
analysis of faces, we are able to judge physical attractiveness and features of their owners' …

Age-related differences in brain activity mediating face recognition were examined using
positron emission tomography. Participants encoded faces using a pleasant–unpleasant …

The attentional cost associated with the visual discrimination of the gender of a face was
investigated. Participants performed a face-gender discrimination task either alone (single …

Objective: The objective of this study was to establish whether or not dyslexics are impaired
at the recognition of faces and other complex nonword visual objects. This would be …

Facial expressions are important for humans in communicating emotions to the conspecifics
and enhancing interpersonal understanding. Many muscles producing facial expressions in …

Un certain nombre d'expériences de neuroimagerie fonctionnelle ont montré que le cortex
préfrontal s' active davantage chez les adultes plus âgés que chez les jeunes adultes au …

The ability to recognize and discriminate conspecific faces and facial expressions has
played a critical role in the evolution of social communication. Darwin was one of the first to …

It has been proposed (see, specifically, MJ Farah, KD Wilson, M. Drain, & JN Tanaka, 1998)
that human faces are used in cognition as undifferentiated wholes. General recognition …

According to current face-recognition models, sex (gender) and identity of faces are
processed in independent routes. Using Garner's speeded-classification task, the authors …