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a International Standard Book Number 9783642407840

a Standard number or code 10.1007/978-3-642-40784-0

a Personal name Rivolta, Davide.

a Title Prosopagnosia

h Medium [libro electrónico] :

b Remainder of title When all faces look the same /

c Statement of responsibility, etc by Davide Rivolta.

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Berlin, Heidelberg :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Springer Berlin Heidelberg :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Imprint: Springer,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014.

a Extent xii, 95 p.

b Other physical details il.

a Series statement Cognitive Systems Monographs,

x International Standard Serial Number 1867-4925 ;

v Volume number/sequential designation 20

a Formatted contents note Cognitive Science: History, Techniques and Methodology -- Cognitive and neural aspects of face processing -- Prosopagnosia: The inability to recognize faces -- Can I recognize faces without knowing it? Evidence of covert face recognition in prosopagnosia -- Stories from people who share their lives with congenital prosopagnosia.

a Summary, etc This book provides readers with a simplified and comprehensive account of the cognitive and neural bases of face perception in humans. Faces are ubiquitous in our environment and we rely on them during social interactions. The human face processing system allows us to extract information about the identity, gender, age, mood, race, attractiveness and approachability of other people in about a fraction of a second, just by glancing at their faces.  By introducing readers to the most relevant research on face recognition, this book seeks to answer the questions: â_oWhy are humans so fast at recognizing faces?â__, â_oWhy are humans so efficient at recognizing faces?â__, â_oDo faces represent a particular category for the human visual system?â__, What makes face perception in humans so special?, â_oCan our face recognition system failâ__?  This book presents the authorâ_Ts findings on face perception during his research studies on both normal subjects and subjects with prosopagnosia, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. The book describes two known forms of prosopagnosia: acquired prosopagnosia, which is the result of a brain lesion, and congenital prosopagnosia, which refers to a lifelong, developmental impairment of face recognition. Written in a comprehensive and accessible style, this book addresses both experts (cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists and computer scientists) and the general public, and aims at raising awareness for a debilitating face recognition disorder, such as prosopagnosia, which is often ignored or misdiagnosed as autism, with serious consequences for the affected persons and their families.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular works.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Neurosciences.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Psychology.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Popular Science.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

u Uniform Resource Identifier (R) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40784-0

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