Faces are among the most important visual stimuli we perceive, informing us not only about
a person's identity, but also about their mood, sex, age and direction of gaze. The ability to …

This chapter reviews the contribution of electromagnetic measures, mostly event-related
potentials (ERPs), to our understanding of the time course of face processing in the normal …

Faces are perhaps the most important object category in visual perception, as faces of
conspecifics frequently convey behaviourally, socially, and emotionally relevant information …

Does face recognition involve face-specific cognitive and neural processes ('domain
specificity') or do faces only seem special because people have had more experience of …

Electrophysiological studies using event-related potentials have demonstrated that face
stimuli elicit a greater negative brain potential in right posterior recording sites 170 msec …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) are electrical potentials generated by the brain that are
related to specific internal or external events (eg, stimuli, responses, decisions). They can be …

Studies of perceptual expertise typically ask whether the mechanisms underlying face
recognition are domain specific or domain general. This debate has so dominated the …

In the debate between expertise and domain-specific explanations of “special” processing
for faces, a common belief is that behavioural studies support the expertise hypothesis. The …

Compared with other objects, faces are processed more holistically and with a larger
reliance on configural information. Such hallmarks efface processing can also be found for …

Many forensic disciplines require experts to judge whether two complex patterns are
sufficiently similar to conclude that both originate from the same source. Studies in this area …