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Face Perception

Face Perception is the cognitive process of interpreting and recognizing facial configurations as distinct visual patterns that convey identity, emotion, and social cues, distinguished from general object perception by its specialization for configural and holistic processing of human faces.

17K

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1.4M

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32.2K

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5.3K

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2017–2026

4.4K

Variants

Face Processing

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Publications

17K

The Fusiform Face Area: A Module in Human Extrastriate Cortex Specialized for Face Perception

Nancy Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott, Marvin M. Chun · Journal of Neuroscience · 1997 · 7.9K citations · Full text

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Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.

Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1971 · 5.4K citations

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From few to many: illumination cone models for face recognition under variable lighting and pose

Athinodoros S. Georghiades, Peter N. Belhumeur, David Kriegman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2001 · 5K citations

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The FERET evaluation methodology for face-recognition algorithms

P. Jonathon Phillips, Hyeonjoon Moon, Syed A. Rizvi et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2000 · 4.7K citations

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Pictures of Facial Affect

Paul Ekman · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1976 · 4.3K citations

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Authors

32.2K

  1. DI
    David I. Perrett

    University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

    109 publications · 23.3K citations

    72

    h-index

  2. AW
    Andrew W. Young

    University of York, United Kingdom

    149 publications · 20.2K citations

    71

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  3. BR
    Bruno Rossion

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    175 publications · 17.4K citations

    71

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  4. GR
    Gillian Rhodes

    The University of Western Australia, Australia

    143 publications · 13.3K citations

    65

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  5. AM
    A. Mike Burton

    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    126 publications · 14.7K citations

    64

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Institutions

5.3K

  1. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    113 h-index

    739 publications

    107.7K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    109 h-index

    707 publications

    127.6K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    86 h-index

    336 publications

    76K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    85 h-index

    985 publications

    57K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    81 h-index

    377 publications

    49.2K citations

  6. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    80 h-index

    561 publications

    60.9K citations

  7. University of St Andrews

    St Andrews, United Kingdom

    80 h-index

    339 publications

    70.5K citations

  8. University of Aberdeen

    Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    80 h-index

    407 publications

    34.7K citations

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  1. Neuropsychologia

    345 publications · 30.4K citations

    97

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  2. Psychological Science

    171 publications · 32.1K citations

    95

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  3. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    156 publications · 35.1K citations

    90

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  4. NeuroImage

    280 publications · 27.4K citations

    89

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  5. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

    176 publications · 26.8K citations

    85

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