Perceiving and remembering Faces

Davies, Graham , Hadyn Ellis and John Shepherd (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 0122062205 / ISBN 13: 9780122062209

Published by Academic Press, London, 1981

About this Item

Academic Press series in cognition and perception. 23.5 x 14 cm., xv, 329pp. A collection of chapters by various authors. Part 1: Theory and data. Part 2: Applications [Phycho-legal aspects, Face recall systems, Computer-guided recollection and retrieval, Training in face recognition] . Grey laminated boards with gilt lettering. CONDITION. VG+. The pages are clean and tight. The corners and ends of the spine are lightly rubbed. Library marks and labels on spine and front end papers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perceiving and remembering Faces
• Publisher: Academic Press, London
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0122062205
• ISBN 13: 9780122062209
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Psychology

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Synopsis

The processes by which we recognise - or fail to recognise - another face have a perennial fascination for laymen and scientists alike. However, it is only in recent years that the problem has received systematic study by experimental psychologists. This book brings together such new information for the first time, in the form of a set of review articles, each written by a leading researcher in the field.
Contributions have been grouped into those where the primary emphasis is upon theory and those where the major concern is with applied problems. Among the issues encompassed by the theory section are: face recognition in infants and children; disturbance associated with brain damage; social and racial aspects; the perception of emotion in the face and the significance of different physiognomic areas in mediating recognition. The relationship of face recognition, both to other memory processes and to information processing in general, is also extensively covered. In the applied section, areas considered include: psycho-legal aspects of identification with special reference to parades or 'line-ups'; studies of recall tools like 'Identikit' and 'Photofit'; the computerised identification and retrieval of facial images, and the effectiveness of training procedures designed to improve facial memory.
Perceiving and Remembering Faces is invaluable to psychologists, whether academics working in higher education or applied practitioners such as clinical psychologists. The emphasis on practical as well as theoretical issues; however, ensures that the book is also of considerable interest to lawyers, criminologists and law enforcement specialists, or indeed to anyone whose work brings them into contact with that central enigma of all human perception and communication: the human face.