Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

Developmental prosopagnosia has received increased attention in recent years, but as yet
has no confirmed genetic or structural markers. It is not certain whether this condition reflects …

It is widely accepted that holistic processing is important for face perception. However, it
remains unclear whether the other-race effect (ORE)(ie superior recognition for own-race …

We evaluate claims that the other-race effect in face memory reflects stronger holistic coding
of own-race than other-race faces. Considering evidence from a range of paradigms …

Faces are probably the most widely studied visual stimulus. Most research on face
processing has used a group-mean approach that averages behavioral or neural responses …

We report the existence of a previously undescribed group of people, namely individuals
who are so poor at recognition of other-race faces that they meet criteria for clinical-level …

Severe developmental deficits in face recognition ability (developmental prosopagnosia, or
DP) have been vigorously studied over the past decade, yet many questions remain …

The ability to decode facial emotions is of primary importance for human social interactions;
yet, it is still debated how we analyze faces to determine their expression. Here we …

Face recognition, holistic processing, and processing of configural and featural facial
information are known to be influenced by face race, with better performance for own-than …

People are more accurate at recognizing faces of their own race than faces from other races,
a phenomenon known as the other-race effect. Other-race effects have also been reported in …