The Cognitive Neuroscience of Face Processing: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology - Hardcover

Kanwisher, Nancy; Moscovitch, Morris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863776140 ISBN 13: 9780863776144

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2000

Synopsis

For social primates like us, faces may be the most biologically significant stimuli we view. Faces provide information not only about identity but also about mood, age, sex, and direction of overt attention. Does our ability to extract this information from faces rely on special-purpose cognitive and neural mechanisms distinct from those involved in the perception of other classes of visual stimuli? If so, how do those mechanisms work? Do these mechanisms arise from experience alone, or is there an innate predisposition to create them? How is face recognition affected by development and aging? What is the relation between face recognition and other cognitive functions such as memory and attention and the neural substrates that mediate them? This special issue showcases new findings from many investigators in this field who address these fundamental questions in studies that use a wide range of experimental techniques including brain imaging, ERPs, patient studies, and single-unit recording in monkeys.

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Nancy Kanwisher, Morris Moscovitch

Edition details

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863776140
• ISBN 13: 9780863776144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304