Face Recognition The Effects of Race, Gender, Age and Species [Paperback]

Although most people are good at face recognition, we are particularly good at recognizing the faces of individuals who share our race, gender, age and species. What factors might account for this type of bias in face recognition? This collection considers the issue of how our identity influences the type of perceptual experience that we have to faces, which, in turn, influences the processes of face recognition. Leading experts from cognitive psychology, neuroscience and computer science address a wide range of topics related to the neural and computational basis of the own versus other effect in face recognition, the impact of early experience in infant face recognition, the effect of laboratory training to reverse the other-race effect, cultural differences in expression recognition and the forensic and social consequences of own versus other face recognition. The combined work gives the reader a comprehensive overview of the field and an insiders perspective on the role that identity and experience play in the everyday process of face recognition.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Cognition.

Introduction to Special Issue Face recognition: The effects of race, gender, age and species James W. Tanaka  Section I: Neural and computational approaches to own- and other-race face processing  1. Neural perspectives on the other-race effect Vaidehi Natu and Alice J. OToole  2. Us versus them: Understanding the process of race perception with event-related brain potentials Tiffany A. Ito and Keith B. Senholzi  3. Computational perspectives on the other-race effect Alice J. OToole and Vaidehi Natu  4. Developing race categories in infancy via Bayesian face recognition Benjamin Balas  Section II: The development of own- and other-race biasel#*