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Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex
variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell
things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention,
something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group,
whether they find us attractive or approachable. Face Perception
2nd edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, providing an
up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped
develop and shape the field. The book begins with the foundations
of face perception before considering what is known about how we
see different things in faces. It concludes with a discussion of
how face perception relates to wider questions involving
interpersonal perception and re-examines the question of what makes
faces ‘special’. The importance of integrating different
research perspectives and asking critical theoretical questions is
emphasised throughout, to develop a distinctive point of view of
the area. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is
invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in
studying face perception and social cognition.
Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex
variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell
things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention,
something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group,
whether they find us attractive or approachable. Face Perception
2nd edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, providing an
up-to-date, integrative summary by two authors who have helped
develop and shape the field. The book begins with the foundations
of face perception before considering what is known about how we
see different things in faces. It concludes with a discussion of
how face perception relates to wider questions involving
interpersonal perception and re-examines the question of what makes
faces ‘special’. The importance of integrating different
research perspectives and asking critical theoretical questions is
emphasised throughout, to develop a distinctive point of view of
the area. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is
invaluable reading for all students and researchers interested in
studying face perception and social cognition.
Each of us is able to recognise the faces of many hundreds if not
thousands of people known to us. We recognise faces despite seeing
them in different views and with changing expressions. From these
varying patterns we somehow extract the invariant characteristics
of an individual's face, and usually remember why a face seems
familiar, recalling where we know the person from and what they are
called. In this book, originally published in 1988, the author
describes the progress which has been made by psychologists towards
understanding these perceptual and cognitive processes, and points
to theoretical directions which may prove important in the future.
Though emphasising theory, the book also addresses practical
problems of eyewitness testimony, and discusses the relationship
between recognising faces, and other aspects of face processing
such as perceiving expressions and lipreading. The book was aimed
primarily at a research audience, but would also interest advanced
undergraduate students in vision and cognition.
This textbook is for use in tutorials and seminars by psychology,
neuroscience and cognitive science undergraduates studying
cognition. The book complements standard course texts in cognition
by providing a series of articles which emphasize particularly what
we do not understand, rather than what we think we do. It considers
a selection of problems and phenomena that remain mysterious
despite years, decades or centuries of enquiry, and evaluates
different approaches to these problems.; The topics discussed range
from specific optical illusions to the nature of consciousness.
Some of these unsolved problems provide a vehicle for reviewing
different paradigms and shifts in the field over the 20th century.
Each chapter also poses some of the remaining unanswered questions,
suggesting directions for future enquiry.
Vision allows us to do many things. It enables us to perceive a
world composed of meaningful objects and events. It enables us to
track those events as they take place in front of our eyes. It
enables us to read. It provides accurate spatial information for
actions such as reaching for or avoiding objects. It provides
colour and texture that can help us to separate objects from their
background, and so forth. This book is concerned with understanding
the processes that allow us to carry out these various
visually?driven behaviours. In the past ten years our understanding
of visual processing has undergone a rapid change, primarily
fostered by the convergence of computational, experimental and
neuropsychological work on the topic. Visual Cognition provides the
first major attempt to cover all aspects of this work within a
single text. It provides a state?of?the?art summary of research on
visual information processing, relevant to advanced undergraduates,
postgraduates and research workers. It covers: seeing static forms,
object recognition, dynamic vision (motion perception and visual
masking), visual attention, visual memory, visual aspects of
reading.For each topic, the relevant computational, experimental
and neuropsychological work is integrated to provide a broader
coverage than that of other texts.
The NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Face Recognition: From
Theory to Applications took place in Stirling, Scotland, UK, from
June 23 through July 4, 1997. The meeting brought together 95
participants (including 18 invited lecturers) from 22 countries.
The lecturers are leading researchers from academia, govemment, and
industry from allover the world. The lecturers presented an
encompassing view of face recognition, and identified trends for
future developments and the means for implementing robust face
recognition systems. The scientific programme consisted of invited
lectures, three panels, and (oral and poster) presentations from
students attending the AS . As a result of lively interactions
between the participants, the following topics emerged as major
themes of the meeting: (i) human processing of face recognition and
its relevance to forensic systems, (ii) face coding, (iii)
connectionist methods and support vector machines (SVM), (iv)
hybrid methods for face recognition, and (v) predictive learning
and performance evaluation. The goals of the panels were to provide
links among the lectures and to emphasis the themes of the meeting.
The topics of the panels were: (i) How the human visual system
processes faces, (ii) Issues in applying face recognition: data
bases, evaluation and systems, and (iii) Classification issues
involved in face recognition. The presentations made by students
gave them an opportunity to receive feedback from the invited
lecturers and suggestions for future work.
Each of us is able to recognise the faces of many hundreds if not
thousands of people known to us. We recognise faces despite seeing
them in different views and with changing expressions. From these
varying patterns we somehow extract the invariant characteristics
of an individual's face, and usually remember why a face seems
familiar, recalling where we know the person from and what they are
called. In this book, originally published in 1988, the author
describes the progress which has been made by psychologists towards
understanding these perceptual and cognitive processes, and points
to theoretical directions which may prove important in the future.
Though emphasising theory, the book also addresses practical
problems of eyewitness testimony, and discusses the relationship
between recognising faces, and other aspects of face processing
such as perceiving expressions and lipreading. The book was aimed
primarily at a research audience, but would also interest advanced
undergraduate students in vision and cognition.
The new edition of this comprehensive text continues to provide a detailed and up-to-date account of research on visual perception, while maintaining the emphasis of earlier editions on the functional context of vision. Reflecting recent theoretical developments, the book is organised around the distinction between two broad functions of vision, to provide awareness and to control action. In Part I, the account of visual processing in the brain has been extensively updated, and evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology has been integrated into a critical account of the 'two pathways' theory of visual cortex. The revision of chapters in Part II has given particular attention to recent advances in integrating psychophysical, physiological and computational approaches to problems such as the perception of surfaces and of motion. With the help of new illustrations, full introductions are provided to the key mathematical concepts used in these areas. In Part III, three new chapters draw on evidence from both animal and human behaviour to cover optic flow and locomotion, the timing of actions, and perception of the social world. The concluding chapter considers critically the wider theoretical implications of the distinction between awareness and action as separate functions of vision. Visual Perception, Fourth Edition will be an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology, biology, physiology and neuroscience, as well as researchers in the fields of visual neuroscience, visual perception and animal behaviour.
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Juliet Rohlmann; Vicki Bruce
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R255
Discovery Miles 2 550
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The human face poses a challenge to engineers, computer
scientists, and psychologists alike. This book integrates different
contributions by combining detailed review articles with general
overviews of the relationship between different kinds of research
on faces and contemporary problems in vision and cognition.
Theoretical developments in this area are increasingly dependent on
computer technology, both because image-processing techniques allow
us to display and manipulate faces for experiments in ways that
were not feasible with old photographic technology and because
theoretical ideas can be expressed and tested more rigorously using
computer simulation. The psychological contributions in this volume
illustrate current theoretical developments that are heavily
dependent on image processing and computer simulation. As
technology improves, so it becomes increasingly feasible to
automate many aspects of face processing normally taken for granted
to develop new technological aids. Therefore, this volume also
includes examples of computing developments for forensic purposes,
for the simulation of plastic surgery, and for automatic animation
for applications in telecommunications and creative arts.
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