Face Perception Lecture Notes Flashcards

Flashcards about face perception, averages, and virtual reality.

Face Perception

The study of how humans recognize and process faces, including aspects like expression, age, gender, race, and attractiveness.

Covert Face Recognition

Recognition of faces that occurs without conscious awareness, often studied in patients with prosopagnosia.

Overt Face Recognition

Conscious and explicit recognition of faces.

Face Recognition Units (FRUs)

Cognitive structures or mechanisms involved in recognizing familiar faces, possibly storing 'instances' or averages of faces.

Person Identity Nodes (PINS)

Nodes in a cognitive model of face recognition that store information about a person's identity.

Image Averaging

A technique used to create robust representations of faces by averaging multiple images of the same person, reducing noise and highlighting stable features.

Prosopagnosia

A neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces.

Skin Conductance Response (SCR)

A physiological measure of arousal that can be used to assess covert face recognition.

Photofit/E-fit

Methods used in law enforcement to create a likeness of a suspect based on eyewitness descriptions.

Glasgow Face Matching Test (GFMT)

A test used to measure the ability to match unfamiliar faces using pairs of photographs.

FaceVACS

An industry-standard automatic face-recognition system used in security applications.

Virtual Reality (VR) Avatars

Digital representations of faces used in VR experiments to study face perception in more realistic, controlled environments.

Super-Recognizers

Individuals with an exceptional ability to recognize faces.

Facial Examiners

Professionals who perform rigorous comparisons of facial images, often for legal proceedings.

Facial Reviewers

Professionals who process substantial volumes of face identification decisions quickly, such as passport officers.