Complexities of face perception and categorisation

Citation

Bruce V, Langton S & Hill H (1999) Complexities of face perception and categorisation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22 (3), pp. 369-370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X99252028

Abstract
We amplify possible complications to the tidy division between early vision and later categorisation which arise when we consider the perception of human faces. Although a primitive face-detecting system, used for social attention, may indeed be integral to “early vision,” the relationship between this and diverse other uses made of information from faces is far from clear.

Keywords
; Face perception; Visual perception

Journal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences: Volume 22, Issue 3

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Dr Stephen Langton

Senior Lecturer, Psychology