Face and Person Perception: Recent Updates and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2024) | Viewed by 617
Special Issue Editors
Interests: face perception and recognition; emotion recognition; functional connectivity; cognitive science; functional neuroimaging; individual differences; artificial neural network
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Face and person perception is one of the key elements for effective social exchanges in our daily lives. We detect, recognize, and identify others based on cues such as their facial and bodily appearance or their voices. But recognition is not merely a perceptual task; recognizing and interacting with others involve activation of person knowledge and the ‘social brain’.
This research topic aims to examine the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms in person perception with particular attention to individual differences in face perception and sociality in neurotypical individuals and in subjects with specific impairments (e.g., congenital or acquired prosopagnosia, autism, etc.). Questions brought forth by this topic include, but are not limited to, the following: what drives prioritized processes in the cognitive or neural mechanisms of face and person perception? What innate or learnt factors have an impact in individual differences in face perception? How is the interaction between perception and retrieval of person knowledge mediated? How do person knowledge and face perception interact to optimize recognition and person perception? What are the key elements for face recognition? Which are the bases for the spontaneous inference of the position in the social network and retrieval of person knowledge?
Dr. Maria Ida Gobbini
Prof. Dr. Ming Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- face perception
- congenital or acquired prosopagnosia
- person perception
- cognitive processing
- social network
- theory of mind
- person knowledge
- autism
- face recognition
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