Face Recognition

Question 1

What does face recognition do for us?

Answer 1

• Gives us information of the other person
  Emotianal state, familarity
• We recognize faces daily
  Some features are more important than others

Question 2

The Thatcher illusion

Answer 2

• Flipping eyes and mouth upside down on a right way up picture
  Makes most feel uncomfortable
• Then you flip that picture upside down
  Doesnt look as strange, some might not notice the difference
• Shows that some features of the face is more important than others

Question 3

How do we see faces?

Answer 3

• Holistic processing
  We process individual components of a face in parallel
• Easier to recognize a property of a face as a face than in isolation

Question 4

Bruce and Young’s feature theory

Answer 4

• Face recognition
  8 process ohases, different processes depending on familairty with the face
• Mostly for familiar faces, dont work for eyewitnesses (that can still remember faces after just seeing it once)
• Suggest that facial identity and emotional expression are processed in parallel and independently.
• Evidence to support both the independence and interdependence of identity and expression processing

Question 5

Prosopagnosia

Answer 5

• Face blindness
  Disruption in face recognition
• Can proces face information but cant recognize faces