For social primates like us, faces may be the most biologically
significant stimuli we view. Faces provide information not only
about identity but also about mood, age, sex, and direction of
overt attention. Does our ability to extract this information from
faces rely on special-purpose cognitive and neural mechanisms
distinct from those involved in the perception of other classes of
visual stimuli? If so, how do those mechanisms work? Do these
mechanisms arise from experience alone, or is there an innate
predisposition to create them? How is face recognition affected by
development and aging? What is the relation between face
recognition and other cognitive functions such as memory and
attention and the neural substrates that mediate them? This special
issue showcases new findings from many investigators in this field
who address these fundamental questions in studies that use a wide
range of experimental techniques including brain imaging, ERPs,
patient studies, and single-unit recording in monkeys.
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