Research Catalog

Title

Face recognition and its disorders / Sarah Bate.

Author

Bate, Sarah.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Pattern Recognition, Visual
• Recognition (Psychology)
• Facial Expression
• Prosopagnosia
• Face perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The structure and function of the healthy adult face processing system -- The cognitive psychology of face recognition -- The cognitive neuroscience of face processing -- The social value of the face -- Focus chapter: are faces special? -- Acquired and neuropsychiatric disorders of face processing -- Acquired prosopagnosia -- Delusional misidentification syndrome -- Face processing deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders -- Focus chapter: what are the theoretical implications of acquired and neuropsychiatric disorders of face processing? -- Developmental disorders of face processing -- The development of the healthy face processing system -- Developmental prosopagnosia -- Face processing deficits in socio-developmental disorders -- Focus chapter: what are the theoretical implications of developmental disorders of face processing? -- The impact, assessment and treatment of face processing deficits -- Living in a world without faces -- Assessment of face processing deficits -- Treatment of face processing deficits -- Focus chapter: integration of theory and practice.

ISBN

• 9780230292161 (hbk.)
• 023029216X (hbk.)
• 9780230292178 (pbk.)
• 0230292178 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2012045617
• 99953734143

OCLC

• 798059552
• ocn798059552
• SCSB-5687773

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Columbia University Libraries