Emotional influences on memory for events have long been documented yet surprisingly little is known about how emotional signals conveyed by contextual cues influence memory for face identity. This study investigated how positively and negatively valenced contextual emotion cues conveyed by body expressions or background scenes influence face memory. The results provide evidence of emotional co...

As a contribution to handling the symbol grounding problem in AI an object recognition system is presented that is exempliied with human faces. It diiers from earlier systems by a pyramidal representation and the ability to cope with structured background.

On page 36 and page 95 it is said that the British Psychological Society's Committee of Professional Psychologists withholds recognition of Educational Psychologists until they have done one year under an experienced educational psychologist after their training is over. But this is not so. On page 94 the Institute of Child Psychology is not included amongst the training bodies mentioned though...

Face gender recognition in developmental prosopagnosia: Evidence for holistic processing and use of configural information Joseph DeGutis a b , Garga Chatterjee b , Rogelio J. Mercado a b & Ken Nakayama b a Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA b Vision Sciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, M...

The orientation invariance of visual pattern recognition in pigeons and humans was studied using a conditioned matching-to-sample procedure. A rotation effect, a lengthening of choice latencies with increasing angular disparities between sample and comparison stimuli, was replicated with humans. The choice speed and accuracy of pigeons was not affected by orientation disparities. Novel mirror-i...

The other-race effect (ORE) in face recognition refers to better recognition memory for faces of one’s own race than faces of another race—a common phenomenon among individuals living in primarily mono-racial societies. In this article, we review findings suggesting that early visual and sociocultural experiences shape one’s processing of familiar and unfamiliar race classes and give rise to th...