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TWK: 8th Tübingen Perception Conference
25th - 27th Feb 2005
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Face Processing of Familiar Faces
Claus-Christian Carbon (University of Vienna)
The ability to recognize and identify familiar faces is an essential skill in everyday life. Six talks from special fields of face research investigate which specific mechanisms are needed to successfully process familiar faces. Carbon tests which critical facial information is needed to recognize familiar faces using veridicality decision tasks. Schwaninger demonstrates the specific importance of configural and componential information for identifying three-dimensional faces. The approaches of Schweinberger and Herzmann test a specific EEG component called N250r which is attributed to familiarity and repetition effects of faces and is therefore capable of testing representational effects. Lueschow investigates face processing under extreme conditions by testing a group of 14 congenital prosopagnosics, who are severely impaired in identifying familiar faces. The last contribution of Groß investigates the interaction of facial identification cues and face-related social cues from a developmental perspective. |
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