Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and
decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and decisions about social …

Faces are among the most informative stimuli we ever perceive: Even a split-second glimpse
of a person's face tells us his identity, sex, mood, age, race, and direction of attention. The …

The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …

Two of the most robust markers for" special" face processing are the behavioral face-
inversion effect (FIE)—the disproportionate drop in recognition of upside-down (inverted) …

Perceptual systems face competing requirements: improving signal-to-noise ratios of noisy
images, by integration; and maximising sensitivity to change, by differentiation. Both …

The fusiform face area (FFA) is involved in face perception to such an extent that some claim
it is a brain module for faces exclusively. The other possibility is that FFA is modulated by …

Identification of a face is facilitated by adapting to its computationally opposite identity,
suggesting that the average face functions as a norm for coding identity [Leopold, DA …

The existence of facial aftereffects suggests that shape-selective mechanisms at the higher
stages of visual object coding—similarly to the early processing of low-level visual features …

Exposure to faces biases perceptions of subsequently viewed faces. Faces similar to those
seen previously are judged more normal and attractive than they were prior to exposure …

Historical trends in face perception research during the past half century are summarized.
The dual process model offered by cognitive neuroscientists to account for the perception of …