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, neuropsychological and applied
perspectives is the first major textbook for 20 years that seeks to
answer questions like these. Drawing on the most recent research in
the field, and organised around the three main research
perspectives - psychological, neuropsychological, and applied - it
provides insights on issues of relevance to students from a wide
range of disciplines.
Face recognition and expression perception have generated a large
amount of research over the last decade, and with high profile
media coverage of related issues, such as the misidentification of
Brazilian student, Jean Charles de Menezes, face processing is a
hot topic within the study of psychology. Face Processing captures
the excitement in the field, and with reference to a wealth of
studies and real-world phenomena, it reveals how our understanding
of face processing has developed over the years.
The first section of the book, on the psychological perspectives of
face processing, considers how we are able to recognise familiar
faces; how we can extract information such as emotion, sex and age
from a face; and how face processing abilities develop.
The second section covers the neuropsychological perspectives, and
examines the disorders of face recognition that arise following
brain injury, and asks whether faces are a 'special' class of
visual stimuli.
Finally, a section on the applied perspectives of face processing
describes face reconstruction systems, such as Identikit and
Photofit, and their limitations; it discusses methods of
constructing facial composites, and the phenomenon of 'verbal
overshadowing', whereby verbal descriptions of visual stimuli
subsequently leads to a temporary impairment in people's ability to
recognise those stimuli.
Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book is the
perfect resource for students studying face processing as part of a
psychology degree, and the breadth of its coverage makes it of
relevance to computer science students, medical students with an
interest in neurology, and students of forensic science, too.
Online Resource Centre
The Online Resource Centre to accompany Face Processing:
psychological, neuropsychological, and applied perspectives
features the following resources for lecturers and students.
For registered adopters
Figures from the book available to download
For students
Hyperlinks to primary literature articles
Web link library
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