The Neuropsychology of Face Perception and Facial Expression (Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics Series)

This book is the first to offer an overview of the increasingly studied field of face perception. Experimental and pathological dissociation methods are used to understand both the precise cognitive mechanisms and the cerebral functions involved in face perception. Three main areas of investigation are discussed: face processing after brain damage; lateral differences for face processing in normals; neuropsychological studies on facial expressions. List of Contributors Contents Preface Foreword: From Patchwork to Melting Pot 1 Introduction: Processes Underlying Face Recognition • Haydn D. Ellis PART I: BRAIN DAMAGE AND FACE PERCEPTION 2 The Anatomical Substrate of Prosopagnosia • Antonio R. Damasio and Hanna Damasio 3 The Cognitive Locus of Prosopagnosia • Guy Tiberghien and Isabelle Clerc 4 Face Processing and Brain Damage: Group Studies • Raymond Bruyer PART II: LATERAL DIFFERENCES FOR FACE PERCEPTION IN NORMAL SUBJECTS 5 Methodological Constraints on Neuropsychological Studies of Face Perception in Normals • Justine Sergent 6 A Micro and Macrodevelopmental View of the Nature of Changes in Complex Information Processing: A Consideration of Changes in Hemispheric Advantage During Familiarization • Phyllis Ross-Kossak and Gerald Turkewitz 7 The Specificity of Face Perception: Evidence from Psychological Investigations • J. B. Davidoff 8 Subject Characteristics in Lateral Differences for Face Processing by Normals: Age • Andrew W. Young 9 Lateral Differences in Face Processing: Effects of Sex and Cognitive Style • Pierluigi Zoccolotti and Luigi Pizzamiglio PART III: NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF FACIAL EXPRESSION 10 Production and Comprehension of Emotional Facial Expressions in Brain-Damaged Subjects • Pierre Feyereisen 11 Asymmetries of Facial Action: Some Facts and Fancies of Normal Face Movement • Ruth Campbell 12 Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Perception of Facial Expressions by Normals • Robert G. Ley and Esther Strauss Author Index Subject Index