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Recognizing Faces
There is a region in the brain, called the fusiform face area or FFA, which is vital in recognizing and distinguishing faces (Andrews et al., 2010). Brain scientists have been acquiring an understanding of the mechanisms, which distinguish faces. A baby's brain processes faces at four months as distinct objects. Faces tell a baby a lot of things, such as the person's identity, gender, race, emotion and truthfulness. The loss of that ability to recognize and distinguish faces is called proposophagnosia or face blindness. It often follows a stroke or brain injury. A person who suffers from this damage, even with normal vision, cannot recognize the faces he already knows very well, such as spouse and children. The damage is often on the fusiform gyrus, which is located in the underside of the brain and other areas (Andrews et al.).
Face Processing and Other Discoveries
A lot has been revealed by science about the general cognitive process involved in this function (Andrews et al., 2010). Faces are holistically processed rather than in parts. Focus is not made only on specific face parts, such as the eyes, nose or mouth. The entire information about these parts and their configuration are processed in creating a general model or concept of the face. This holistic procedure enables the brain to distinguish a specific face from many variations according to the individual encounter. A face recognition software today is not able to match the inherent capability of the human brain in this feat (Andrews et al.).
Imaging techniques have helped scientists more discoveries. One such discovery was that face-processing areas in the brain interact with memory networks (Andrews et al., 2010). This interaction enables the person to identify the one he is talking with or recall something of the past with this other person. Emotion has a particularly important role too. Some brain scientists believe that a defective connection with some emotional...
Recognition Cognitive Process of Facial Recognition We see so many faces each day. How does the mind keep track of them all? Something that seems so simple is actually quite complex. There are a number of cognitive processes that help the mind recognize facial features in general but also familiar faces that represent known associates. The brain categorizes and codes facial features and relationships between those features that allow for a
28 subjects comprised the normal control group. They were recruited through a newspaper ad and had no histories of Axis I psychiatric disorders. The subjects were shown images on a computer screen for 13, 26, 52, or 104 ms, sometimes upright and sometimes inverted, and were asked to indicate, by pressing one of two keys on a keyboard, whether the image of a face or a tree was located on
Prosopagnosia According to A.J. Larner's book, "A Dictionary of Neurological signs," prosopagnosia is a neurological condition, "a form of visual agnosia characterized by an inability to recognize previously known human faces or equivalent stimuli (hence a retrograde defect) and to learn new ones (anterograde defect)" (Larner, 2010). Larner further distinguishes between two forms of prosopagnosia: apperceptive and associative agnosia. This "category-specific recognition disorder," as G, Neil Martin calls it in his
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