Within the last three decades, interest in the psychological experience of human faces has drawn together cognitive science researchers from diverse backgrounds. Computer scientists talk to neural scientists who draw on the work of mathematicians who explicitly influence those conducting behavioral experiments. The chapters in this volume illustrate the breadth of the research on facial perception and memory, with the emphasis being on mathematical and computational approaches. In pulling together these chapters, the editors sought to do much more than illustrate breadth. They endeavored as well to illustrate the synergies and tensions that inevitably result from adopting a broad view, one consistent with the emerging discipline of cognitive science.
Author(s): Michael J. Wenger, James T. Townsend
Edition: 1
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 528
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Quantitative Models of Perceiving and Remembering Faces: Precedents and Possibilities......Page 12
2 The Perfect Gestalt: Infinite Dimensional Riemannian Face Spaces and Other Aspects of Face Perception......Page 50
3 Face–Space Models of Face Recognition......Page 94
4 Predicting Similarity Ratings to Faces Using Physical Descriptions......Page 126
5 Formal Models of Familiarity and Memorability in Face Recognition......Page 158
6 Characterizing Perceptual Interactions in Face Identification Using Multidimensional Signal Detection Theory......Page 204
7 Faces as Gestalt Stimuli: Process Characteristics......Page 240
8 Face Perception: An Information Processing Perspective......Page 296
9 Is All Face Processing Holistic? The View From UCSD......Page 358
10 Viewpoint Generalization in Face Recognition: The Role of Category-Specific Processes......Page 408
11 2D or Not 2D? That Is the Question: What Can We Learn From Computational Models Operating on Two-Dimensional Representations of Faces?......Page 440
12 Are Reductive (Explanatory) Theories of Face Identification Possible? Some Speculations and Some Findings......Page 478
B......Page 514
D......Page 515
G......Page 516
K......Page 517
N......Page 518
S......Page 519
V......Page 520
Z......Page 521
C......Page 522
G......Page 523
P......Page 524
W......Page 525
