Oxford Handbook of Face Perception

The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person's identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans also display a surprising degree of consistency in the extent to which personality traits, such as trustworthiness and likeability, are attributed to faces. In the past thirty years, face perception has become an area of major interest within psychology, with a rapidly expanding research base. Yet until now, there has been no comprehensive reference work bringing together this ever growing body of research. The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and commanding review of the field ever published. It looks at the functional and neural mechanisms underlying the perception, representation, and interpretation of facial characteristics, such as identity, expression, eye gaze, attractiveness, personality, and race. It examines the development of these processes, their neural correlates in both human and non-human primates, congenital and acquired disorders resulting from their breakdown, and the theoretical and computational frameworks for their underlying mechanisms. With chapters by an international team of leading authorities from the brain sciences, the book is a landmark publication on face perception. For anyone looking for the definitive text on this burgeoning field, this is the essential book.APPROACHES TO STUDYING FACE PROCESSING ; 1. Face perception: a developmental perspective ; 2. Cognitive and computational approaches to face recognition ; 3. Ecological and social approaches to face perception ; 4. Face neurons ; 5. Disorders of face perception ; 6. Distributed neural systems for face perception ; 7. The functional architecture of the face system: integrating evidence from fMRI and patient studies ; 8. Applied research in face processing ; PERCEIVING AND REMEMBERING FACES ; 9. Are faces special? ; 10. Features, configuratiton and holistic face processing ; 11. Face perception and perceptual expertise in adult and developmental populations ; 12. An experience-based holistic account of the other-race face effect ; 13. Social Categorization Influences Face Perception and Face Memory ; 14. Adaptive norm-based coding of face identity ; 15. Unfamiliar face perception ; 16. Face recognition in eyewitness memory ; 17. The face-sensitive N170 component of the event-related brain potential ; 18. Neurophysiological correlates of face perception ; 19. Transcranial magnetic stimulation studies of face processing ; 20. Computer-generated images in face perception ; 21. Neurocomputational models of face processing ; READING FACES ; 22. Does facial identity and facial expression recognition involve separate visual routes? ; 23. Attention and automaticity in processing facial expressions ; 24. On Perceiving Facial Expressions: The Role of Culture and Context ; 25. Automated facial expression measurement : Recent applications to basic research in human behavior, learning, and education ; 26. Influence of Personality Traits on Processing of Facial Expressions ; 27. Real faces, real emotions: perceiving facial expressions in naturalistic contexts of voices, bodies and scenes ; 28. The impact of social gaze perception on attention ; 29. Neural Substrates of Social Perception ; 30. Functional and Neural Mechanisms for Eye Gaze Processing ; 31. Speechreading - what's MISS-ing? ; 32. Personality impressions from facial appearance ; 33. Structure, expression, and motion in facial attractiveness ; COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ; 34. Neural encoding principles in face perception revealed using non-primate models ; 35. Facial perception in nonhuman primates ; 36. Taking apart the neural machinery of face processing ; 37. Recognising the faces of other species: What can a limited skill tell us about face processing? ; 38. The neuro-development of face perception ; 39. Development of face processing expertise ; 40. Sensitive periods in face perception ; DISORDERS - PROSOPAGNOSIA, NEUROPSYCHIATRIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS ; 41. Impairments in Face Perception ; 42. Developmental prosopagnosia: Cognitive, neural, and developmental investigations ; 43. Face processing in autism ; 44. Face perception in schizophrenia and mood disorders ; 45. Delusions and faces