Aspects of Face Processing: NATO Science Series D:, cartea 28

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.