Lecture 2

Question 1

Why is face recognition important?

Answer 1

Crucial in social interaction, communication, and identity verification.

Question 2

What cognitive challenges are associated with face recognition?

Answer 2

Faces are similar in structure, requiring distinguishing fine-grained visual differences.

Question 3

What are fine-grained visual differences that help distinguish faces?

Answer 3

• Spacing between eyes
• Shape of the jawline or nose
• Curve of the lips
• Wrinkles, scars, dimples
• Skin tone, texture, eye shape

Question 4

What must be separated in face recognition?

Answer 4

Expression from identity.

Question 5

Which brain region processes dynamic features like expressions?

Answer 5

Superior temporal sulcus (STS).

Question 6

Which brain region is specialized for identity recognition?

Answer 6

Fusiform Face Area (FFA).

Question 7

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 7

Inability to recognize faces, even familiar ones.

Question 8

What does the modularity hypothesis suggest about face processing?

Answer 8

Face recognition relies on a domain-specific system.

Question 9

What is an alternative view to the modularity hypothesis?

Answer 9

Faces might be an area of extreme perceptual expertise.

Question 10

How are faces processed, according to holistic processing?

Answer 10

Faces are perceived as a whole rather than feature-by-feature.

Question 11

What is the inversion effect in face recognition?

Answer 11

Faces are harder to recognize when upside down.

Question 12

What does the composite face effect demonstrate?

Answer 12

Two halves of different faces appear as one unified identity when aligned.

Question 13

What is the role of the Occipital Face Area (OFA)?

Answer 13

Involved in early stages of face perception.

Question 14

Fill in the blank: Damage to FFA leads to _______.

Answer 14

prosopagnosia.

Question 15

What types of prosopagnosia exist?

Answer 15

• Acquired (due to brain damage)
• Congenital (developmental)

Question 16

What can patients with prosopagnosia often identify using other cues?

Answer 16

Voice, hairstyle, clothes.

Question 17

What is the function of the FFA in face processing?

Answer 17

Specialized for face perception.

Question 18

Which brain region processes both dynamic and stable features?

Answer 18

Occipital Face Area (OFA).

Question 19

True or False: Holistic processing allows us to recognize faces feature-by-feature.

Answer 19

False.

Question 20

What are dynamic features?

Answer 20

expressions, gaze, mouth movement

Question 21

in what brain area are dynamic features processed?

Answer 21

STS - superior temporal sulcus

Question 22

What are stable features?

Answer 22

identity (Bone structure
General configuration of features
Long-term facial traits)

Question 23

In what brain area are stable features processed?

Answer 23

FFA - fusiform face area

Question 24

The composite effect can be described as

Answer 24

The tendency for two halves of a face to be automatically bound together

Question 25

A patient is studied who can recognise familiar faces but no longer understand their facial expressions. According to the Bruce and Young (1986) model, which part of their face-processing system is damaged?

Answer 25

The view-centred pathway

Question 26

Bruce and Young's (1986) model predicts that

Answer 26

Familiarity decisions will be faster than recognition decisions

Question 27

Effects such as the inversion effect and the composite effect have been used to argue that…

Answer 27

Face processing is configural

Question 28

Capgras delusion is thought to result from

Answer 28

Impaired emotional responses to faces