Faces

Visual face processing abilities are selectively impaired

Memory for the names of familiar persons is impaired

The ability to identify persons by any means is impaired

Vision is impaired in general, but preserved for faces

Average

Specific to racial groups

Slightly asymmetric

Gender-neutral

Even very impoverished line drawings can be interpreted as faces

Babies prefer to look at faces over other stimuli

We are better at recognising previously seen faces than other types of visual stimuli

Babies only a few days old prefer to look at the faces of their own mother over other age-matched female faces

Babies prefer stimuli with vertical (left/right) symmetry over those with horizontal (up/down) symmetry

Are highly overlapping

Are interchangeable

Are redundant

Are found in the occipital lobe

Are well separated

After the observer has been induced into a happy mood

After adapting to a face with an angry expression

When the face is turned upside down

After adapting to a face with a happy expression

Viewing binocularly fused, form fitted stimuli

Viewing scrambled faces

Seeing Rubin's face/vase stimulus as a vase

Viewing human faces

Viewing emotional stimuli