1st Edition

Recognising Faces

By Vicki Bruce Copyright 1988
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

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 expressions. From these varying patterns we somehow extract the invariant characteristics of an individual’s face, and usually remember why a face seems familiar, recalling where we know the person from and what they are... Read more

1. Introduction to Problems of Face Recognition  2. Affective and Communicative Aspects of Face Perception  3. Faces as Patterns  4. Semantic Coding of Faces  5. Remembering Instances  6. Towards a Computational Theory of Face Perception.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Vicki Bruce