Understanding face recognition

Bruce, V., & Young, A. W. (1986). Understanding face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 77(3), 305-327.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1986

Volume

77

Issue

3

Pages

305-327

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.1986.tb02199.xmatched

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cognitive_science

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• Pattern Recognition
  • Every pattern-recognition process articulates (1) the stimulus encoding—how sensory input is represented, (2) the feature extraction—which dimensions matter, (3) the stored category representation—the template or prototype against which features are compared, (4) the matching operation—how similarity is computed, (5) the recognition threshold—when confidence crosses into categorical judgment, and (6) the categorization output—the action, inference, or belief that follows.

    This sourceCanonical two-stage model of face perception (structural encoding → recognition units → identity nodes); foundational for understanding human face recognition.

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