Aspects of Face Processing

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Aberdeen, Scotland, U. K. , June 29-July 4, 1985

1. Introduction. - to aspects of face processing: Ten questions in need of answers. - 2. Perceptual Processes. - Microgenesis of face perception. . - Recognition memory transfer between spatial- frequency analyzed faces. . - Reaction time measures of feature saliency in a perceptual integration task. . - Perception of upside-down faces: An analysis from the viewpoint of cue-saliency. . - 3. Memory Processes. - On the memorability of the human face. . - Face recognition is not unique. Evidence from individual differences. . - Lateral reversal and facial recognition memory: Are right-lookers special? . - Context effects in recognition memory of faces: Some theoretical problems. . - 4. Cognitive Processes. - Recognising familiar faces. . - Face recognition: More than a feeling of familiarity? . - Getting semantic information from familiar faces. . - What happens when a face rings a bell? : The automatic processing of famous faces. . - 5. Socio-Cognitive Factors. - Levels of representation and memory for faces. . - Formation of facial prototypes. . - Stereotyping and face memory. . - The influence of race on face recognition. . - Faces, prototypes, and additive tree representations. . - 6. Cortical Specialisation. - Functional organization of visual neurones processing face identity. . - Hemispheric asymmetry in face processing in infancy. . - Models of laterality effects in face perception. . - Hemispheric asymmetries in face recognition and naming: effects of prior stimulus exposure. . - Patterns of cerebral dominance in wholistic and featural stages of facial processing. . - Hemispheric differences in the evoked potential to face stimuli. . - Cerebral and behavioural asymmetries in the processing of unusual faces: A review. . - 7. Prosopagnosias. - Current issues on prosopagnosia. . - The cognitive psychophysiology ofprosopagnosia. . - Prosopagnosia: Anatomic and physiologic aspects. . - Faces and non-faces in prosopagnosic patients. . - Observations on a case of prosopagnosia. . - 8. Brain Pathology. - Facial processing in the dementias. . - The matching of famous and unknown faces, given either the internal or the external features: A study on patients with unilateral brain lesions. . - Face recognition dysfunction and delusional mis identification syndromes (D. M. S.). . - 9. Facial Expressions. - Facial expression processing. . - The perception of action versus feeling in facial expression. . - Towards the quantification of facial expressions with the use of a mathematic model of the face. . - Is the faster processing of expressions of happiness modality-specific? . - Primary stages in single-glance face recognition: Expression and identity. . - Affective and cognitive decisions on faces in normals. . - 10. Applications and Computer Technology. - Dynamics of facial recall. . - The recall and reconstruction of faces: Implications for theory and practice. . - An interactive computer system for retrieving faces. . - Investigating face recognition with an image processing computer. . - Practical face recognition and verification with WISARD. . - 11. An Overview. - Plenary session. An overview. Complementary approaches to common problems in face recognition. . - 12. References. - Addresses of Principal Authors.