Prosopagnosia: current perspectives

SL Corrow, KA Dalrymple, JJS Barton - Eye and brain, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Prosopagnosia is a selective visual agnosia characterized by the inability to recognize the
identity of faces. There are both acquired forms secondary to brain damage and …

Face processing systems: from neurons to real-world social perception

W Freiwald, B Duchaine, G Yovel - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas
composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided …

Suboptimality in perceptual decision making

D Rahnev, RN Denison - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2018 - cambridge.org
Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces

DJ Carragher, PJB Hancock - Cognitive research: principles and …, 2020 - Springer
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments around the world now
recommend, or require, that their citizens cover the lower half of their face in public …

Passport officers' errors in face matching

D White, RI Kemp, R Jenkins, M Matheson, AM Burton - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Photo-ID is widely used in security settings, despite research showing that viewers find it
very difficult to match unfamiliar faces. Here we test participants with specialist experience …

The 20-item prosopagnosia index (PI20): a self-report instrument for identifying developmental prosopagnosia

P Shah, A Gaule, S Sowden… - Royal Society open …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Self-report plays a key role in the identification of developmental prosopagnosia (DP),
providing complementary evidence to computer-based tests of face recognition ability …

Super‐recognisers in action: Evidence from face‐matching and face memory tasks

AK Bobak, PJB Hancock, S Bate - Applied Cognitive …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Individuals employed in forensic or security settings are often required to compare faces of
ID holders to document photographs, or to recognise the faces of suspects in closed‐circuit …

A new approach to diagnosing and researching developmental prosopagnosia: Excluded cases are impaired too

EJ Burns, E Gaunt, B Kidane, L Hunter… - Behavior research …, 2023 - Springer
Developmental prosopagnosia is characterized by severe, lifelong difficulties when
recognizing facial identity. Unfortunately, the most common diagnostic assessment …

Eye-movement strategies in developmental prosopagnosia and “super” face recognition

AK Bobak, BA Parris, NJ Gregory… - Quarterly journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a cognitive condition characterized by a severe
deficit in face recognition. Few investigations have examined whether impairments at the …

A unified coding strategy for processing faces and voices

G Yovel, P Belin - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2013 - cell.com
Both faces and voices are rich in socially-relevant information, which humans are
remarkably adept at extracting, including a person's identity, age, gender, affective state …