Your Brain's Facial Recognition Technology

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References:

Grüter, T., Grüter, M. & Carbon C. C. (2008). Neural and genetic foundations of face recognition and prosopagnosia. Journal of Neuropsychology 2 (1): 79--97 http://www.researchgate.net/publicati...

Kanwisher, N., & Yovel, G. (2006). The fusiform face area: a cortical region specialized for the perception of faces. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 361(1476), 2109-2128. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Nishimura, M., Doyle, J., Humphreys, K., & Behrmann, M. (2010). Probing the face-space of individuals with prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48(6), 1828-1841. http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~behrmann/dlp...

Sacks, O. (1988). The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York, NY: Touchstone. http://robinlea.com/pub/wife-hat.pdf

Tsao, D. Y., & Livingstone, M. S. (2008). Mechanisms of face perception.Annual review of neuroscience, 31, 411. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

Valentine, T., & Bruce, V. (1986). The effects of distinctiveness in recognising and classifying faces. Perception, 15(5), 525-535. [$] http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract...

Valentine, T. (2001). Face-space models of face recognition. Computational, geometric, and process perspectives on facial cognition: Contexts and challenges, 83-113. http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/Oth...

Facebook's "Deep Face" http://www.technologyreview.com/news/...

And there's a great conversation with two face blind people on Radiolab (including Oliver Saks, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) http://www.radiolab.org/story/91967-s...


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Images: Gollum: Wikimedia/Gage Skidmore; Multiple faces: iStock.