In this review, we synthesize the existing literature investigating personally familiar face
processing and highlight the remarkable, enhanced processing efficiency resulting from real …

Personally familiar faces are processed more robustly and efficiently than unfamiliar faces.
The human face processing system comprises a core system that analyzes the visual …

Processes evoked by seeing a personally familiar face encompass recognition of visual
appearance and activation of social and person knowledge. Whereas visual appearance is …

The functional importance of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) has come to prominence in
two active, albeit unconnected literatures—(i) face recognition and (ii) semantic memory. To …

Eye gaze is a powerful cue that indicates where another person's attention is directed in the
environment. Seeing another person's eye gaze shift spontaneously and reflexively elicits a …

It is widely accepted that holistic processing is critical for early face recognition, but recent
work has suggested a larger role for feature-based processing. The earliest step in familiar …

Seeing a face in motion can help subsequent face recognition. Several explanations have
been proposed for this “motion advantage,” but other factors that might play a role have …

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face
compared with familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians …

Previous event-related potential (ERP) research demonstrated four successive ERP
components in the repetition priming of human face recognition: P100, N170, N250r, and …

The perception of gender and age of unfamiliar faces is reported to vary idiosyncratically
across retinal locations such that, for example, the same androgynous face may appear to …