Face perception

Emotion in Racial Categorization Face recognition is one of the human species’ most complex, vital, and effortless cognitive functions. Although faces all look objectively quite similar, individuals have high acuity in discerning the fine visual details that distinguish one face from another. In fact, this extraordinary face perception ability requires so much computational power that multiple regions of the brain, including the inferior occipital gyrus and fusiform gyrus, appear to be dedicated to face perception (Haxby, Hoffman, & Gobbini, 2001). This neural specialization speaks to the importance of face perception in humans’ longevity as a social species. Just by looking upon people’s faces, one can gain information about their…

This article will focus on illusory face perception which is finding faces that remind us of humans in things that have no face in them at all examples include faces of numerous religious icons in toasted food (Svoboda 2007) .There were two tests used to inspect the relationship between paranormal, religious beliefs and face perception. The key purpose of this essay will be to summarise and evaluate the article ‘ paranormal and religious believers are more prone to illusory face perception than…

NERVE Testing the Function of the Facial Nerve VII Anatomy & Physiology 203 November 15, 2014 Introduction: The facial nerve is the seventh cranial nerve of the peripheral nervous system that is the chief motor nerve of the face. It exits the brainstem between the pons and the medulla. The primary motor function is the control of the muscles of facial expressions and conveys impulses of taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and mouth. It also supplies…

Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness affects 2% of the world’s population, which means 150 million people suffer with this on a daily basis. This disorder inhibits people from recognizing the faces of those around them including family members. Prosopagnosia wasn’t really discovered or heavily studied until 1947, by Joachim Bodamer. There are two main types of prosopagnosia, acquired and developmental. Though often not heard of prosopagnosia has been the struggle of protagonists in…

inability to recognize identity from faces. This impairment can either be acquired following a brain injury, called acquired prosopagnosia, or developmental in nature, in which case the individuals have never developed an ability to recognize faces, also known as congenital prosopagnosia. Being able to recognize faces rapidly and accurately is crucial for distinguishing family members, friends, and colleagues from strangers and to even navigate our social environment with a sense of security.…

facial recognition. The core consideration was the aspect that primarily lateralisation of cortical functioning has consistently used facial stimulation. This has been conjectured due to the concept that recognition of a face is processed differently between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. To facilitate this research a group of psychology students were tested. Using a standard set of visual prompts and cues, with the intention to study the way personality…

The present study is concerned with whether or not faces have an advantage over detailed objects in a recognition task. An advantage for faces over objects could serve useful adaptive and social functions, as well as fill a gap in the literature and lend insight into facial recognition after a crime. Should faces have an advantage over objects, it may give insight into how visual information is processed in order to achieve survival and social goals. The ability to recognize previously seen…

The primary function of Facial Recognition and Facial Identification are to either Authenticate someone’s identity or to Identify an unknown individual. The process of Authentication, is considered to be a 1:1 process, meaning that an individuals face and positive identity are already stored in a database and the system is only comparing the image of the individual present against a known image in a database. This type of system would be used in a controlled environment such as a high-security…

“The ability to recognize and discriminate between faces is particularly important for social life in humans” (1) Since birth, it is important that our survival is determined by social agents and conspecific. Among other incentives, individuals provide the necessary information. Among other social landmarks in the environment, faces are probably the most important for us as people, as they convey relevant social information, such as identity, age, gender, emotions. In a research study,…

constantly, such as their hair, weight and what they are wearing, and even though some software claims to account for these changes, they are very hard to account for with 100% accuracy. 2d) According to Don Q. Dao’s article, 5 Pros and Cons of Face Recognition Technology, facial recognition software first detects a face, and then mathematically scans the features of the face and extracts data from the scan to create a numerical code of the face called a faceprint. With deep learning algorithms,…