Authors:

CALDER, A., Young, A

Reference:

Year of publication:

2005

CBU number:

6164

Abstract:

Faces convey a wealth of social signals. A dominant view in face-perceptionresearch has been that the recognition of facial identity and facial expression involvesseparable visual pathways at the functional and neural levels, and data from experimental,neuropsychological, functional imaging and cell-recording studies are commonly interpretedwithin this framework. However, the existing evidence supports this model less strongly than isoften assumed. Alongside this two-pathway framework, other possible models of facial identityand expression recognition, including one that has emerged from principal component analysistechniques, should be considered.