Cognitive Neuroscience of Vision

Face Perception

Face Perception
  • By Vicki Bruce, and Andy Young.

Published December 2011

Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In…
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Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception

Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception
  • Edited by John J. Rieser, Daniel H. Ashmead, Ford Ebner and Anne L. Corn.

Published August 2007

Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the mind works. In these individuals, the part of the brain that is usually devoted to processing visual information is given over to…
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