Advances in Face Perception and How Disorders Affect Face Perception
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 226
Special Issue Editors
Interests: face recognition; face perception; biological motion; individual differences
Interests: face recognition; face perception; prosopagnosia; development; developmental disorders; eye movements
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1960s, we have learnt a considerable amount about the cognitive and neural underpinnings of face perception and recognition. We have explored different types of face perception tasks—from detection to identification—as well as the specialised processes underpinning them. We have published cognitive and neural models of face perception. More recently, we have started to consider the importance of individual differences in our face perception and recognition ability, both within the general population and in people whose face recognition is extremely poor (developmental prosopagnosia) or extremely good (super-recognisers). Further, we have identified atypical face identity perception and recognition in a number of other disorders, such as developmental dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and some neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions.
This Special Issue aims to advance our knowledge of face perception and disorders that affect face perception. This encompasses experimental, neural, computational, patient-based, and real-world studies of face perception or recognition and its disorders. We encourage papers that advance our understanding of the neural or cognitive underpinnings of the face processing system, and/or the mechanisms associated with atypical face perception and disorders affecting face perception.
Original articles, literature reviews, meta-analyses, brief reports, and commentaries are welcomed.
Dr. Karen Lander
Dr. Rachel Bennetts
Dr. Natalie Butcher
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- face perception
- face recognition
- prosopagnosia
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- individual differences
- clinical disorders
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Planned Papers
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Since the 1960s, we have learnt a considerable amount about the cognitive and neural underpinnings of face perception and recognition. We have explored different types of face perception tasks—from detection to identification—as well as the specialised processes underpinning them. We have published cognitive and neural models of face perception. More recently, we have started to consider the importance of individual differences in our face perception and recognition ability, both within the general population and in people whose face recognition is extremely poor (developmental prosopagnosia) or extremely good (super-recognisers). Further, we have identified atypical face identity perception and recognition in a number of other disorders, such as developmental dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and some neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions.
This Special Issue aims to advance our knowledge of face perception and disorders that affect face perception. This encompasses experimental, neural, computational, patient-based, and real-world studies of face perception or recognition and its disorders. We encourage papers that advance our understanding of the neural or cognitive underpinnings of the face processing system, and/or the mechanisms associated with atypical face perception and disorders affecting face perception.
Original articles, literature reviews, meta-analyses, brief reports, and commentaries are welcomed.
