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Prosopagnosia - When all faces look the same (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
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Prosopagnosia - When all faces look the same (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 20
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This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive
account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in
humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them
during social interactions. The human face processing system allows
us to extract information about the identity, gender, age, mood,
race, attractiveness and approachability of other people in about a
fraction of a second, just by glancing at their faces. By
introducing readers to the most relevant research on face
recognition, this book seeks to answer the questions: "Why are
humans so fast at recognizing faces?", "Why are humans so efficient
at recognizing faces?", "Do faces represent a particular category
for the human visual system?", What makes face perception in humans
so special?, "Can our face recognition system fail"?. This book
presents the author's findings on face perception during his
research studies on both normal subjects and subjects with
prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the
inability to recognize faces. The book describes two known forms of
prosopagnosia: acquired prosopagnosia, which is the result of a
brain lesion, and congenital prosopagnosia, which refers to a
lifelong, developmental impairment of face recognition. Written in
a comprehensive and accessible style, this book addresses both
experts (cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists and
computer scientists) and the general public, and aims at raising
awareness for a debilitating face recognition disorder, such as
prosopagnosia, which is often ignored or misdiagnosed as autism,
with serious consequences for the affected persons and their
families.
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