Young, Andrew William orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-6297 (2018) Faces, people and the brain:the 45th Sir Frederic Bartlett lecture. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. pp. 1-26. ISSN 1747-0226
Abstract
The fact that the face is a source of diverse social signals allows us to use face and person perception as a model system for asking important psychological questions about how our brains are organised. A key issue concerns whether we rely primarily on some form of generic representation of the common physical source of these social signals (the face) to interpret them, or instead create multiple representations by assigning different aspects of the task to different specialist components. Variants of the specialist components hypothesis have formed the dominant theoretical perspective on face perception for more than three decades, but despite this dominance of formally and informally expressed theories the underlying principles and extent of any division of labour remain uncertain. Here, I discuss three important sources of constraint. First, the evolved structure of the brain. Second, the need to optimise responses to different everyday tasks. Third, the statistical structure of faces in the perceiver's environment. I show how these constraints interact to determine the underlying functional organisation of face and person perception.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Experimental Psychology Society 2017.This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2018 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 14:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817740275 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1747021817740275 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126254 |
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