There is growing evidence that face recognition is “special” but less certainty concerning the
way in which it is special. The authors review and compare previous proposals and their …

Face recognition is a remarkable human ability, which underlies a great deal of people's
social behavior. Individuals can recognize family members, friends, and acquaintances over …

Are faces recognized using more holistic representations than other types of stimuli? Taking
holistic representation to mean representation without an internal part structure, we interpret …

A better understanding of eyewitness identification from lineups and photospreads has
emerged in the psychological literature over the last dozen years. The structural and …

Background: Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, is associated with medial
occipitotemporal lesions, especially on the right. Functional imaging has revealed a focal …

Each of us is able to recognise the faces of many hundreds if not thousands of people
known to us. We recognise faces despite seeing them in different views and with changing …

Human beings possess a remarkable ability to recognise familiar faces quickly and without
apparent effort. In spite of this facility, the mechanisms of visual recognition remain …

Although caricatures are often gross distortions of faces, they frequently appear to be super-
portraits capable of eliciting recognition better than veridical depictions. This may occur …

We studied discrimination of changes in eye position, mouth position, and eye colour at
viewing durations ranging from 1 second to unlimited time. With upright faces, perception …

This paper presents a framework for component-based face alignment and representation
that demonstrates improvements in matching performance over the more common holistic …