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Face recognition is a critical skill for our social adaptation; disorders of face recognition can impose very frustrating and embarrassing problems on the affected person. Although face recognition is usually an automatic and effortless process for most of us, it entails very complex neural computations, most of which are still beyond our knowledge. This book presents review of recent scientific findings on face recognition and prosopagnosia (face-blindness) and psychophysical studies that were conducted with human observers including individuals with prosopagnosia. These studies have…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Face recognition is a critical skill for our social
adaptation; disorders of face recognition can impose
very frustrating and embarrassing problems on the
affected person. Although face recognition is usually
an automatic and effortless process for most of us,
it entails very complex neural computations, most of
which are still beyond our knowledge. This book
presents review of recent scientific findings on face
recognition and prosopagnosia (face-blindness) and
psychophysical studies that were conducted with human
observers including individuals with prosopagnosia.
These studies have investigated the manner in which
faces are represented in the visual system under
changes in viewpoint and image size. Using unique
methods including synthetic faces, the present work
has extended the findings of previous studies and
provided insight into the neural mechanisms that
underlie face processing and prosopagnosia. Face
recognition is a promising venue of scientific and
clinical investigations and offers a wide range of
commercial, security and law enforcement
applications. The reader should be somewhat familiar
with psychophysical methods.
Autorenporträt
Yunjo has a PhD in Psychology (Brain, Behaviour, and
Cognitive Sciences) and is currently a post-doctoral research
fellow at the Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre and
University of Toronto. Her research areas include face/object
processing, prosopagnosia and cognitive aging using behavioural and
functional neuroimaging methods.