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…

Face perception or facial recognition is one of the key abilities that most humans possess, which serves many various roles such as bettering social interaction and communication with others. It enables individuals to perceive and identify different things such as the ability to distinguish between different emotions, to gain a sense of comfort after seeing a familiar face, to identify the physical and mental state of another, etc. Furthermore, these may also be used as indicators and social…

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…

Prosopagnosia is a deficit in recognising familiar faces. Patients report inability to judge age, gender or recognise certain emotional expressions (Corrow, Dalrymple & Barton, 2016). Cognitive tests of prosopagnosia include accuracy and reaction time variable, were the patients are required to name famous faces or to make response time judgements for face-name pairings. Philip is an example of a patient with acquired prosopagnosia. He obtained his condition after a car accident which resulted…

Prosopagnosia is a relatively rare cognitive disorder which causes difficulties in face recognition and perception (Bate & Tree, 2016). Face perception involves many functions within the brain, from processing memories of faces to judging the qualities of a face (Lidaka, 2014). Many researchers have conducted studies to try and determine just how face perception occurs, and whether this process is different to the process involved in the id entification of general objects. Studies of individuals…

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.…

have been crucial evolutionary; Recognising faces for social functioning and recognition for poisonous food to reduce death. This essay, attempts to underpin the processes and mechanism’s facial and object recognition use. I shall take a holistic and non-reductionist approach to addressing this, exploring biological and cognitive process, aided by models of recognition and research from case studies to find double dissociations, I shall address these in the essay chronologically. I shall attempt…

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…