Face and Mind

Klappentext Face and Mind provides an excellent summary of the most important theoretical and empirical work done on face perception in recent years. This collection of seminal research and review papers examines the question of how faces are special, in terms of their social, biological, and theoretical roles, and seeks to determine what our understanding of the face can tell us about the human brain. The book addresses a wide range of topics, including how the mind processes, remembers, and recalls different faces; covert face recognition; faces in social and biological contexts; errors in everyday face recognition; delusional misidentifications; and dissociable deficits after brain injury, among others. This fascinating book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in psychology, neuropsychology, and cognitive science. Zusammenfassung Face and Mind consists of research and review papers on face perception. Young includes detailed studies of the types of impairment to face perception which can follow brain injury or psychiatric illness, and analyses their implications for understanding the brain, from the functional structure of mental processes to consciousness itself.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew W. Young, Andrew W. (Professor Young
• Assisted by: Andrew W. Young (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.1998
• EAN: 9780198524205
• ISBN: 978-0-19-852420-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Cognitive Science Series; Oxford Cognitive Science Series; Oxford Cognitive Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology