Prosopagnosia When all faces look the same /

• Main Author: Rivolta, Davide (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Cognitive Systems Monographs, 20
• Subjects: Popular works.; Neurosciences.; Artificial intelligence.; Psychology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them during social interactions. The human face processing system allows us to extract information about the i...

Table of Contents:

• Cognitive Science: History, Techniques and Methodology
• Cognitive and neural aspects of face processing
• Prosopagnosia: The inability to recognize faces
• Can I recognize faces without knowing it? Evidence of covert face recognition in prosopagnosia
• Stories from people who share their lives with congenital prosopagnosia.