The face : organ of communication : The face as a biological structure ; Variations in the human face ; Abnormal faces ; The muscles and expressive movements of the face ; Brain regions involved in visual perception ; Brain regions selectively responsive to faces ; Organisation of face-responsive regions The science and methods of face perception research : To err is human: and it can be highly informative ; Unavoidable errors: the effects of brain injury ; The time it takes to do things: reaction times and what they can tell us ; Priming and interference: important and widely used paradigms ; Other sources of information: preferences and adaptation ; Eye movements: where you look, and why it matters ; Understanding and manipulating images: contributions of computer graphics ; Functional and computational models: key types of theory ; Recording what happens in the brain ; The broader picture Social categories : The pervasiveness of social categories ; Physical differences between faces: cues to age ; Sex differences between faces ; Racial differences between faces ; Using cues to age, sex and race ; Categorical perception and adaptation effects for physical characteristics ; Perception of attractiveness ; Attractiveness and evolution ; Hormonal influences on attractiveness ; Other social characteristics ; Stereotype activation ; Faces that look untrustworthy or threatening: the role of the amygdala ; A systematic approach to social perception Messages from facial movements : The facial muscles ; The universality thesis ; Perceiving and producing facial expressions of emotion ; Dimensional models of facial expression recognition ; Category models of facial expression recognition ; Emotion-specific mechanisms ; Identity and expression ; Talking and lipreading ; Why do we lipread? ; When and where does audiovisual fusion occur? ; Multimodal recognition of emotion ; Bringing the neurology and the psychology together
Gaze and attention : How do we know where someone else is looking? ; Gaze involves more than just the eyes ; Neural mechanisms of gaze perception ; What uses do we make of gaze? ; Gaze and mental state ; Gaze cueing and attention ; How faces grab our attention ; The social context of gaze ; Looking away: why we sometimes need to avert our gaze ; Beyond gaze: face-to-face communication and video-mediated communication
Recognising faces : Face features and configuration ; Why are upside-down faces hard to recognise? ; But, identifying the nature of configural processing is not quite so easy! ; More potential cues to identity: shape and surface pigmentation ; Movement and face recognition ; Distinctiveness and caricature ; Other-race and other-age effects ; Prototypes and adaptation effects ; Visual representation of faces n memory ; How do faces become familiar? When faces are not remembered: everyday memory for faces and eyewitness testimony ; Witness reconstructions of faces ; How can we improve the likeness gained form composite systems? ; Witness identification of faces: photospreads, line-ups and video parades ; Beyond witnessing: CCTV on trial ; Individual differences in face recognition and photo-matching
Beyond the face: person perception : Accessing semantic information and names ; Why are names so hard to retrieve? ; The Bruce and Young (1986) model ; Repetition and semantic priming ; Mo delling repetition and semantic priming ; Where is semantic information about familiar people stored in the brain? ; Covert recognition in prosopagnosia ; Context, appraisal and recognition ; Relations between voice and face recognition ; Faces and voices in person perception ; What's it all about, Alfie?
Nature and nurture : Perception of faces by newborn babies ; The development of face perception after birth ; Perception of expressive and social signals from faces in infancy ; Development during childhood ; Face perception and recognitiontheross teh lifespan ; Atypical development ; Are faces the 'special ones'? ; Does the brain use face-specific mechanisms? ; More on localisation ; Aftermath.
