How do we recognise faces
We need to recognise faces for many different reasons. There are evolutionary reasons, in other words we need to distinguish between familiar faces in our social groups for survival. ... Genetic predisposition is an area in the brain that is dedicated to the recognition of faces. ... It is an inability to recognise familiar faces e. ... They have to rely on other non-facial actions to recognise the person e. ... For all faces we can decide on emotional expression, gender, age and so on. This information we perceive enables us to identify people and their faces and by looking at the physical features of a person’s face we can make familiarity judgments. ... We recognise faces by structural encoding. ... There are at least three different types of stored knowledge accessed during identification of familiar faces. ... Although most peoples recognition memory for faces is good, several pieces of evidence lead to the prediction that the accuracy with which pictures of faces could be matched to live unfamiliar faces would be less perfect. ... Lightning might affect the recognition memory for unfamiliar faces. ... Most people are good at recognising familiar faces under a variety of different conditions; this may not be the case with unfamiliar faces where successful recognition is partly dependent on the similarity of the images encountered. Given this evidence it seems much more difficult to recognise a face compared to a photograph. ... Most people recognise familiar looking people by their faces rather than recognition of other things e.