Processing the Facial Image

Proceedings of a Royal Society Discussion Meeting held on 9 and 10 July 1991

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

Av V. Bruce, A. Cowey, A. W. Ellis, D. Perrett, University of Nottingham) Bruce, V. (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Oxford University) Cowey, A. (Department of Experimental Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of York) Ellis, A. W. (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews) Perrett, D. (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology

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Human faces present complex visual patterns that mediate a rich variety of social activity including the recognition of individuals, the perception of emotion, and lipreading. In recent years considerable progress has been made in understanding how these complex images are interpreted by the brain, and in the development of computer systems for the processing, transmission, and graphical display of faces. This volume provides state-of-the-art reviews of the processes involved in perceiving and recognizing faces, with perspectives from neurophysiology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology. It also includes contributions from engineering and computer science. The authors are internationally recognized experts drawn from these various disciplines, and they review their own recent contributions to the field. Much of the current impetus and excitement comes from the remarkable degree of communication and collaboration, often spanning traditional disciplinary boundaries, that characterizes this field of research which is well illustrated by the chapters assembled in this volume.

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Utgivningsdatum1992-08-27
Mått216 x 304 x 14 mm
Vikt710 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor138
FörlagOUP Royal Society
ISBN9780198522614

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Charles G. Gross: Representation of visual stimuli in inferior temporal cortex; Edmund T. Rolls: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying face processing within and beyond the temporal cortical visual areas; D.I. Perrett, J.K. Hietanen, M.W. Oram, & P.J. Benson: Organization and functions of cells responsive to faces in the temporal cortex; C.A. Heywood & A. Cowey: The role of the `face-cell' area in the discrimination and recognition of faces by monkeys; Ruth Campbell: The neuropsychology of lipreading; Andrew W. Young: Face recognition impairments; Justine Sergent & Jean-Louis Signoret: Functional and anatomical decomposition of face processing: evidence from prosopagnosia and PET study of normal subjects; Paul Ekman: Facial expressions of emotion: an old controversy and new findings; Quentin Summerfield: Lipreading and audio-visual speech perception; Don Pearson: The extraction and use of facial features in low bit-rate visual communication; Keith Waters & Demetri Terzopoulos: The computer synthesis of expressive faces; Susan Carey: Becoming a face expert; Hadyn D. Ellis: The development of face processing skills; Andrew W. Ellis: Cognitive mechanisms of face processing; Vicki Bruce, A. Mike Burton & Ian Craw: Modelling face recognition; Index.

The 15 papers included in this volume are uniformly well written and informative. Together they constitute a comprehensive and scholarly summary of recent empirical and theoretical work on face perception. Although this volume will be of most interest to specialists working in face perception, nonspecialists in cognitive, developmental, and biological psychology should find the research and theoretical advances summarized in these papers of considerable interest ... most of the papers are written in an engaging and nontechnical style, so that individuals in applied areas (e.g. police science, law or cosmetic surgery) should find them informative as well.