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Face Recognition and Cognition

A special issue of Vision (ISSN 2411-5150).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 7627

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Dr. Andrea Albonico

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Human Vision and Eye Movement Laboratory, Departments of Medicine (Neurology), Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Interests: face recognition; word processing; cognitive neuropsychology

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

The face is a complex structure, characterized by a complicated three-dimensional shape, a substantial degree of mobility, and structural constraints that make all faces similar. These issues present challenges to perceptual systems. Nevertheless, due to the social importance of faces, humans have developed the ability to recognize them rapidly and accurately, with seemingly little effort. This allows us not only to identify others, but also to recover their biographical information and understand their feelings and intentions. Different cognitive and neural models have been proposed to capture the complexity of the face recognition process, but the exact nature of the mechanisms underlying face processing are still debated—even more debated is whether the mechanisms used for recognizing faces are face-specific or are shared by most (if not all) object types.  The aim of this Special Issue, therefore, is to consider experimental, clinical and theoretical contributions that could help us to clarify this fascinating but complex topic.

Dr. Andrea Albonico
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Measuring the Contributions of Perceptual and Attentional Processes in the Complete Composite Face Paradigm
by William Blake Erickson and Dawn R. Weatherford
Vision 2023, 7(4), 76; https://doi.org/10.3390/vision7040076 - 17 Nov 2023
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Theories of holistic face processing vary widely with respect to conceptualizations, paradigms, and stimuli. These divergences have left several theoretical questions unresolved. Namely, the role of attention in face perception is understudied. To rectify this gap in the literature, we combined the complete [...] Read more.
Theories of holistic face processing vary widely with respect to conceptualizations, paradigms, and stimuli. These divergences have left several theoretical questions unresolved. Namely, the role of attention in face perception is understudied. To rectify this gap in the literature, we combined the complete composite face task (allowing for predictions of multiple theoretical conceptualizations and connecting with a large body of research) with a secondary auditory discrimination task at encoding (to avoid a visual perceptual bottleneck). Participants studied upright, intact faces within a continuous recognition paradigm, which intermixes study and test trials at multiple retention intervals. Within subjects, participants studied faces under full or divided attention. Test faces varied with respect to alignment, congruence, and retention intervals. Overall, we observed the predicted beneficial outcomes of holistic processing (e.g., higher discriminability for Congruent, Aligned faces relative to Congruent, Misaligned faces) that persisted across retention intervals and attention. However, we did not observe the predicted detrimental outcomes of holistic processing (e.g., higher discriminability for Incongruent, Misaligned faces relative to Incongruent, Aligned faces). Because the continuous recognition paradigm exerts particularly strong demands on attention, we interpret these findings through the lens of resource dependency and domain specificity. Full article
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Prosopagnosia, Other Specific Cognitive Deficits, and Behavioral Symptoms: Comparison between Right Temporal and Behavioral Variant of Frontotemporal Dementia
by Christos Koros, Ion Beratis, Stavroula Matsi, Anastasia Bougea, Anastasios Bonakis, Ioannis Papatriantafyllou, Efthalia Angelopoulou, Elisabeth Kapaki, Leonidas Stefanis and Sokratis G. Papageorgiou
Vision 2022, 6(4), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/vision6040075 - 13 Dec 2022
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Right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia (rtv-FTD) represents an uncommon and recently described frontotemporal dementia (FTD) entity presenting with symptoms in many ways comparable to those of the frontal or behavioral variant of FTD (bv-FTD). The aims of this study were to explore [...] Read more.
Right temporal variant of frontotemporal dementia (rtv-FTD) represents an uncommon and recently described frontotemporal dementia (FTD) entity presenting with symptoms in many ways comparable to those of the frontal or behavioral variant of FTD (bv-FTD). The aims of this study were to explore the timing of cognitive and behavioral symptoms of rtv-FTD, and to compare the distinct cognitive deficits including prosopagnosia and behavioral symptoms of rtv-FTD patients with those observed in bv-FTD patients. We reviewed the records of 105 patients clinically diagnosed with FTD. A total of 7 patients (5 men/2 women) with FTD and marked right temporal atrophy in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were detected. Clinical features were compared with those observed in a group of 22 age-matched patients (16 men/6 women) with FTD and predominant frontal lobe atrophy. The main presenting symptoms of rtv-FTD were prosopagnosia, apathy, and episodic memory impairment. In contrast, social awkwardness and compulsive behaviors were dominant in later stages of the disease together with disinhibition and loss of insight with a marked personality change. Although the cognitive and behavioral profiles of patients with right temporal or frontal lobes atrophy present substantial similarities, each subtype has a number of distinct characteristics. It appears that prosopagnosia, obsessive behaviors, and psychotic symptoms are more prominent in rtv-FTD patients. Full article
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Does Father Christmas Have a Distinctive Facial Phenotype?
by Thomas Wright, Chris Law, Ben Wright and Barry Wright
Vision 2022, 6(4), 71; https://doi.org/10.3390/vision6040071 - 02 Dec 2022
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We investigated whether Father Christmas has a distinguishable facial phenotype by performing a cross-sectional cohort study examining the facial feature vectors of all publicly available photographs obtained from a google image search of individuals meeting our eligibility criteria presenting as Father Christmas compared [...] Read more.
We investigated whether Father Christmas has a distinguishable facial phenotype by performing a cross-sectional cohort study examining the facial feature vectors of all publicly available photographs obtained from a google image search of individuals meeting our eligibility criteria presenting as Father Christmas compared with other adult and elderly bearded men. Facial feature vectors were determined using the open-source OpenFace facial recognition system and assessed by support vector machines (SVM). SVM classifiers were trained to distinguish between the facial feature vectors from our groups. Accuracy, precision, and recall results were calculated and the area under the curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) were reported for each classifier. SVM classifiers were able to distinguish the face of Father Christmas from other adult men with a high degree of accuracy and could discriminate Father Christmas from elderly bearded men but with lower accuracy. Father Christmas appears to have a distinct facial phenotype when compared to adult men and elderly bearded men. This will be reassuring to children who may be keen to recognise him but raises some interesting questions about the careful use of two-dimensional facial analysis, particularly when employed to explore the relationships between genotype and facial phenotype in a clinical dysmorphology setting. Full article
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