A useful framework for understanding the mental representation of facial identity is face-
space (Valentine, 1991), a multi-dimensional cognitive map in which individual faces are …

A particularly interesting and somewhat puzzling finding in the face‐processing literature is
that, despite the absence of overt recognition of most faces, many patients with acquired …

Congenital prosopagnosia (CP), an innate impairment in recognizing faces, as well as the
other-race effect (ORE), a disadvantage in recognizing faces of foreign races, both affect …

Faces are arguably the most significant visual stimuli in children's social environment. Much
of children's adaptive social functioning relies on their success in extracting crucial …

In this chapter, we compare and contrast the detailed behavioral and neural signatures of
congenital prosopagnosia (CP) and the acquired form of prosopagnosia (AP). Much is to be …

La percezione emotiva dei volti, la più sviluppata abilità visiva umana, è mediata sia da
diversi territori corticali, come le aree occipitali e temporali, che da strutture sottocorticali …

La percezione dei volti è un tema di grande interesse nella ricerca scientifica, poiché si tratta
di una delle abilità cognitive fondamentali per la comunicazione e l'interazione sociale …

A prominent debate in visual perception centers on the nature of mechanisms underlying
face processing. One side of this debate argues that faces are processed by specialised …

Face cognition is a crucial skill for social interaction. Large individual differences in face
cognition have been shown for healthy adults, suggesting that there might be a need for …

BACKGROUND The coupled comments by Helen and her niece and by Emma (fictitious
names, of course) reflect some of the major characteristics of congenital prosopagnosia …