The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person's identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans also display a surprising degree of consistency in the extent to which personality traits, such as trustworthiness and likeability, are attributed to faces. In the past thirty
years, face perception has become an area of major interest within psychology, with a rapidly expanding research base. Yet until now, there has been no comprehensive reference work bringing together this ever growing body of research.
The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and commanding review of the field ever published. It looks at the functional and neural mechanisms underlying the perception, representation, and interpretation of facial characteristics, such as identity, expression, eye gaze, attractiveness, personality, and race. It examines the development of these processes, their neural correlates in both human and non-human primates, congenital and acquired disorders resulting from their
breakdown, and the theoretical and computational frameworks for their underlying mechanisms. With chapters by an international team of leading authorities from the brain sciences, the book is a landmark publication on face perception.
For anyone looking for the definitive text on this burgeoning field, this is the essential book.
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It is unparalleled in terms of sheer breadth and depth ... As both a useful "bible" for important results and a library of sorts for methodological approaches, my laboratory's copy of the Handbook is likely to see a great deal of use. * Ben Balas, Perception Vol. 41 *
Edited by Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Gillian Rhodes, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Mark Johnson, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Jim Haxby, Dartmouth College, USA
Contributors:
Professor Ralph Adolphs, Division of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
Professor Nalini Ambady. Tufts University Psychology Department USA
Ms Gizelle Anzures, Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Galia Avidan, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.
Professor Marian Stewart Bartlett, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, USA
Dr Jason Barton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr Andrew Bayliss, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor Marlene Behrmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Michael J. Bernstein, Miami University, USA
Michelle I. Bertrand, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada
Dr. Elina Birmingham, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle University, UK
Professor Mike Burton, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
Professor Ruth Campbell, Human Communication Science, University College London, UK
Dr Andy Calder, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Professor Gergely Csibra, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Professor Garrison W Cottrell, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, USA
Professor Geraldine Dawson, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, USA
Dr Michelle de Haan, UCL Institute of Child Health, UK
Dr Bradley Duchaine, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Professor Martin Eimer, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Dr Susan Faja, Centre for Autism Research, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, USA
Professor Jianfeng Feng, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
Professor Elaine Fox, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK
Dr Winrich Freiwald, Brain Research Institute, Department of Theoretical Neurobiology, Bremen, Germany
Professor Beatrice de Gelder, Department of Psychonomics, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands
Dr Maria Ida Gobbini, University of Bologna, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Facoltà di Medicina, Italy
Ms Iris Gordon, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor James Haxby, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, USA
Ms Erin Hecht, Emory University, Division of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, USA
Dr Janet Hsiao, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Professor Kurt Hugenberg, Department of Psychology, Miami University, USA
Dr Rob Jenkins, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK
Professor Mark Johnson Room, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Natalie Kalmet, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada
Professor Nancy Kanwisher, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Professor Keith Kendrick, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, UK
Robyn Langdon, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Kang Lee, Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr David Leopold, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, USA
Professor Rod Lindsay, Department of Psychology, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Professor Jamal K. Mansour, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Professor Daphne Maurer, Department of Psychology, McMaster University Hamilton, Canada
Professor Gregory McCarthy, Psychology, Yale University, USA
Professor Elinor McKone, School of Psychology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Dr Caroline Michel, Université catholique de Louvain, Faculté de Psychologie, Belgium
Professor Cathy Mondloch, Department of Psychology, Brock University, Canada
Dr Edward Morrison, University of Portsmouth, Department of Psychology, UK
Dr Mayu Nishimura, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Professor Alice O'Toole, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas, USA
Professor Lisa Parr, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, USA
Dr Olivier Pascalis, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Dr Ian Penton-Voak, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
Professor Kevin Pelphrey, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Professor Mary Phillips, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA
Dr David Pitcher, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Professor Paul Quinn, Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, USA
Professor Gillian Rhodes, School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Australia
Dr Ruthger Righart, Laboratory for Social and Neural Systems Research, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Dr Rachel Robbins, Macquarie University, Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Edmund T. Rolls, Oxford University, Centre for Computational Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, UK
Dr Bruno Rossion, Université Catholique de Louvain, Unite Cognition & Developpement (CODE), Faculte de Psychologie, Belgium
Donald F. Sacco, Miami University, USA
Mr Chris Said, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA.
Professor Stefan Schweinberger, Department of General Psychology, Faculty for Social and Behavioural Sciences, Unviersity of Jena, Germany
Professor Lisa Scott, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, University of Massachusetts, USA
Dr Alan Slater, University of Exeter, School of Psychology, UK
Professor Jim Tanaka, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada
Professor Steven Tipper, School of Psychology, Bangor University, UK
Professor Alexander Todorov, Psychology Department, Princeton University, USA
Dr Doris Tsao, Division of Biology, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
Dr Jan Van den Stock, Department of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Ms Sara Verosky, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA
Professor Dr Thomas Vetter, Computer Science Department, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr Patrik Vuilleumier, Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center & Department of Neurology, Switzerland
Ms Mirella Walker, Computer Science Department, University of Basel, Switzerland
Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
Professor Sara Webb, Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington, USA
Dr Max Weisbuch, Depatment of Psychology, Tufts Unversity, USA
Elisabeth I. Melsom, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada
Mr Jacob Whitehill, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, USA
Dr Sylvia Wirth, Institute for Cognitive Science, France
Dr Brent C. Vander Wyk, Yale University, Yale Child Study Center, USA
Professor Andy Young, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK
Steven G. Young, Miami University, Psychology Building, USA
Professor Leslie Zebrowitz, Brandeis University, Department of Psychology, USA
Dr Konstantina Zougkou, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, UK
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge
School of Psychology, University of Western Australia
Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London
Dartmouth College, USA