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- Compact yet comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural mechanisms of human face recognition
- Introduces the general readers to the most important neuroimaging techniques used to investigate the brain
- Describes the clinical and neural features of prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces
- All the concepts are presented in an easy-to-understand style, making them also accessible to the general public
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cognitive Systems Monographs (COSMOS, volume 20)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them during social interactions. The human face processing system allows us to extract information about the identity, gender, age, mood, race, attractiveness and approachability of other people in about a fraction of a second, just by glancing at their faces. By introducing readers to the most relevant research on face recognition, this book seeks to answer the questions: “Why are humans so fast at recognizing faces?”, “Why are humans so efficient at recognizing faces?”, “Do faces represent a particular category for the human visual system?”, What makes face perception in humans so special?, “Can our face recognition system fail”?. This book presents the author’s findings on face perception during his research studies on both normal subjects and subjects with prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. The book describes two known forms of prosopagnosia: acquired prosopagnosia, which is the result of a brain lesion, and congenital prosopagnosia, which refers to a lifelong, developmental impairment of face recognition. Written in a comprehensive and accessible style, this book addresses both experts (cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists and computer scientists) and the general public, and aims at raising awareness for a debilitating face recognition disorder, such as prosopagnosia, which is often ignored or misdiagnosed as autism, with serious consequences for the affected persons and their families.
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Davide Rivolta
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prosopagnosia
Book Subtitle: When all faces look the same
Authors: Davide Rivolta
Series Title: Cognitive Systems Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40784-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-40783-3Published: 07 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52393-3Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-40784-0Published: 24 September 2013
Series ISSN: 1867-4925
Series E-ISSN: 1867-4933
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 95
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Neurosciences