People are excellent at identifying faces familiar to them, even from very low quality images,
but are bad at recognizing, or even matching, unfamiliar faces. In this review we shall …

Since the 1970s there has been a continuing interest in how people recognise familiar faces
(Bruce,; Ellis,). This work has complemented investigations of how unfamiliar faces are …

Face masks present a new challenge to face identification (here matching) and emotion
recognition in Western cultures. Here, we present the results of three experiments that test …

Within psychology, emotion is often treated as something private and personal. In contrast,
this book tries to understand emotion from the'outside,'by examining the everyday social …

Despite many years of research, there has been surprisingly little progress in our
understanding of how faces are identified. Here I argue that there are two contributory …

Research in face recognition has tended to focus on discriminating between individuals, or
“telling people apart.” It has recently become clear that it is also necessary to understand …

Abstract Information for identifying a human face can be found both in the invariant structure
of features and in idiosyncratic movements and gestures. When both kinds of information are …

First impressions made to photographs of faces can depend as much on momentary
characteristics of the photographed image (within‐person variability) as on consistent …

Primate face processing depends on a distributed network of interlinked face-selective areas
composed of face-selective neurons. In both humans and macaques, the network is divided …

It has been known for many years that identifying familiar faces is much easier than
identifying unfamiliar faces, and that this familiar face advantage persists across a range of …