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Complexities of face perception and categorisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Vicki Bruce
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotlandvicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/
Steve Langton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotlandvicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/
Harold Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotlandvicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/

Abstract

We amplify possible complications to the tidy division between early vision and later categorisation which arise when we consider the perception of human faces. Although a primitive face-detecting system, used for social attention, may indeed be integral to “early vision,” the relationship between this and diverse other uses made of information from faces is far from clear.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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