Aspects of Face Processing

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1. Introduction.
• to aspects of face processing: Ten questions in need of answers.
• 2. Perceptual Processes.
• Microgenesis of face perception..
• Recognition memory transfer between spatial- frequency analyzed faces..
• Reaction time measures of feature saliency in a perceptual integration task..
• Perception of upside-down faces: An analysis from the viewpoint of cue-saliency..
• 3. Memory Processes.
• On the memorability of the human face..
• Face recognition is not unique. Evidence from individual differences..
• Lateral reversal and facial recognition memory: Are right-lookers special?.
• Context effects in recognition memory of faces: Some theoretical problems..
• 4. Cognitive Processes.
• Recognising familiar faces..
• Face recognition: More than a feeling of familiarity?.
• Getting semantic information from familiar faces..
• What happens when a face rings a bell?: The automatic processing of famous faces..
• 5. Socio-Cognitive Factors.
• Levels of representation and memory for faces..
• Formation of facial prototypes..
• Stereotyping and face memory..
• The influence of race on face recognition..
• Faces, prototypes, and additive tree representations..
• 6. Cortical Specialisation.
• Functional organization of visual neurones processing face identity..
• Hemispheric asymmetry in face processing in infancy..
• Models of laterality effects in face perception..
• Hemispheric asymmetries in face recognition and naming: effects of prior stimulus exposure..
• Patterns of cerebral dominance in wholistic and featural stages of facial processing..
• Hemispheric differences in the evoked potential to face stimuli..
• Cerebral and behavioural asymmetries in the processing of “unusual” faces: A review..
• 7. Prosopagnosias.
• Current issues on prosopagnosia..
• The cognitive psychophysiology ofprosopagnosia..
• Prosopagnosia: Anatomic and physiologic aspects..
• Faces and non-faces in prosopagnosic patients..
• Observations on a case of prosopagnosia..
• 8. Brain Pathology.
• Facial processing in the dementias..
• The matching of famous and unknown faces, given either the internal or the external features: A study on patients with unilateral brain lesions..
• Face recognition dysfunction and delusional mis identification syndromes (D. M. S.)..
• 9. Facial Expressions.
• Facial expression processing..
• The perception of action versus feeling in facial expression..
• Towards the quantification of facial expressions with the use of a mathematic model of the face..
• Is the faster processing of expressions of happiness modality-specific?.
• Primary stages in single-glance face recognition: Expression and identity..
• Affective and cognitive decisions on faces in normals..
• 10. Applications and Computer Technology.
• Dynamics of facial recall..
• The recall and reconstruction of faces: Implications for theory and practice..
• An interactive computer system for retrieving faces..
• Investigating face recognition with an image processing computer..
• Practical face recognition and verification with WISARD..
• 11. An Overview.
• Plenary session. An overview. Complementary approaches to common problems in face recognition..
• 12. References.
• Addresses of Principal Authors.