Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M. J. Becoming a 'Greeble' expert: Exploring mechanisms for face recognition.
Gauthier, I. & Tarr, M.J. Becoming a "Greeble" expert: exploring mechanisms for face recognition.
de Haan, M., Pascalis, O. & Johnson, M. H. Specialization of neural mechanisms underlying face recognition in human infants.
Additionally, concerning mechanisms of face recognition, our results support the view that more looking at eyes predicts better face memory.
This model seeks to explain face- and person- identification behaviours by decomposing the mechanism for face recognition into roughly four types of components and processes.
These results call for studies exploring the mechanisms involved in face recognition allowing interspecies comparisons, including humans.
Secondly, they demonstrate that the central fixation used by East Asian observers during face recognition relates to task specific perceptual mechanisms.
Taken together, the biases in recognition reported here show that far from being narrowly customized to a fixed type of response, face recognition employs broad and flexible cognitive mechanisms finely tuned to minor changes in the content of social and behavioral information encoded with faces.
Based on the previous negative results of unconscious face identity/gender processing, and given that face recognition and holistic processing might share common underlying mechanisms (Richler, Cheung et al., 2011; Wang, Li, Fang, Tian, & Liu, 2012), one possibility is that holistic face processing cannot be accomplished without conscious awareness.
