Recognising Faces
Published on 31. March 2017
166 pages
978-1-315-47180-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-315-47180-8 (9781315471808)
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Person
Vicki Bruce
Content
1. Introduction to Problems of Face Recognition 2. Affective and Communicative Aspects of Face Perception 3. Faces as Patterns 4. Semantic Coding of Faces 5. Remembering Instances 6. Towards a Computational Theory of Face Perception. References. Author Index. Subject Index.
