Screen LibraryHandbook of research on face processing /
The high degree of scientific interest in face processing is readily understandable, since people's faces provide such a wealth of social information. Moreover, investigations have produced evidence of highly precocious face processing abilities in infants, and of neural mechanisms in adults th...
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North-Holland ; Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1989. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444871435 |
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The high degree of scientific interest in face processing is readily understandable, since people's faces provide such a wealth of social information. Moreover, investigations have produced evidence of highly precocious face processing abilities in infants, and of neural mechanisms in adults that seem to be differentially involved in face perception. Such findings demonstrate that, as one might expect, the psychological importance of the face has clear biological underpinnings. There are also urgent practical reasons for wanting to understand face processing. The most extensively investigated o. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 605 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9781483290652 1483290654 |
| Index Number: | BF242 |
| CLC: | B842.2 |
| Contents: |
Front Cover; Handbook of Research on Face Processing; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Content; List of contributors; PART 1: SPECIFICITY; CHAPTER 1. ARE FACES SPECIAL?; INTRODUCTION; ARE FACES SPECIAL?; MODULARITY AND GNOSTIC FIELDS; DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES; YIN'S STUDIES; SPECIFICITY OF RIGHT HEMISPHERE INVOLVEMENT; PR0S0PAGN0SIA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES; OUTLINE OF A FACE-PROCESSING MODULE; ALTERNATIVE ROUTES TO RECOGNITION; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; COMMENTARY 1.1. PROSOPAGNOSIA: A MULTI-STAGE, SPECIFIC DISORDER?; REFERENCES. Commentary 1.2. the question of faces: special is in the brain of the beholderintroduction; the prodigiousness of face recognition; the development of face recognition; susceptibility to inversion; biological underpinnings; summary; references; commentary 1.3. four ways for faces to be 'special'; introduction; the innateness criterion; the localisation criterion; the modularity criterion; the uniqueness criterion; references; part 2: structural processing; chapter 2. structural processing of faces; introduction; the face as a stimulus; cerebral processing of faces; conclusion; references. Commentary 2.1. spatial frequencies and the cerebral hemispheresreferences; commentary 2.2. the structure of faces; references; part 3: expressions; chapter 3. processing facial affect; introduction; ii. basic questions; iii. development of the ability to decode facial expressions; iv. variations in the ability to recognise facial expressions; v concluding comments: (how) are facial expressions special?; references; commentary 3.1. understanding facial expressions of emotion; the representation of emotions; feature or configuration: false teeth? Processing facial affect in the lab versus in real lifereferences; commentary 3.2. origins and processing of facial expressions; references; commentary 3.3. the construction of emotion from facial action; introduction; basic questions; development of the ability to decode facial expressions; concluding comments; are facial expressions special?; references; part 4: lipreading; chapter 4. lipreading; the uses of lipreading in normal, adult hearers; can children lipread; lipreading in deaf and blind children; what can be seen on the lips?; what do people look at when they are lipreading? Theoretical aspects: lipreading in theories of speech perceptionlipreading: neuro-cognitive aspects; mrs d. and mrs t: how lipreading doubly dissociates from face perception; conclusions; references; commentary 4.1. neuro-cognitive processing of faces and voices; references; commentary 4.2. reading gestures by light and sound; references; commentary 4.3. lips, teeth, and the benefits of lipreading; references; part 5: semantic processing; chapter 5. semantic processing; introduction; independence of familiar face recognition and expression analysis. |