How do we recognise familiar faces? What factors determine facial attractiveness? How does face processing develop in infants and children? Why do face reconstruction systems, such as Photofit and E-Fit, produce such poor likenesses of the original face? Face Processing: psychological, neuropsychological and applied perspectives is the first major textbook for 20 years that seeks to answer questions like these. Drawing on the most recent research in the field, and organised around the three main research perspectives - psychological, neuropsychological, and applied, it provides insights on issues of relevance to students from a wide range of disciplines. Face recognition and expression perception have generated a large amount of research over the last decade, and with high profile media coverage of related issues, such as the misidentification of Brazilian student, Jean Charles de Menezes, face processing is a hot topic within the study of psychology. Face Processing captures the excitement in the field, and with reference to a wealth of studies and real-world phenomena, it reveals how our understanding of face processing has developed over the years.

Introduction I: Psychological Perspectives 1. Models of human face processing 2. The nature of facial representations 3. Processing emotional expression 4. Faces as social stimuli 5. The development of face processing - part i, infants 6. The development of face processing - part ii, childhood 6. Clinical neuropsychology of face recognition 7. Clinical neuropsychology of face recognition 8. Developmental neuropsychological disorders of face processing 9. The cognitive neuroscience of face processing 10. Are faces special? 10. Technology and face processing 11. Eyewitness identification evidence, and recognition of unfamiliar faces 12. Own-group biases in face recognition 13. Technology and facial identification Discussion

Graham Hole , Senior Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Victoria Bourne , Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Dundee

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