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Complexities of face perception and categorisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Vicki Bruce
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland vicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/
Steve Langton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland vicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/
Harold Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland vicki.bruce@stir.ac.uk www.stir.ac.uk/departments/humansciences/psychology/
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Abstract

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We amplify possible complications to the tidy division between early vision and later categorisation which arise when we consider the perception of human faces. Although a primitive face-detecting system, used for social attention, may indeed be integral to “early vision,” the relationship between this and diverse other uses made of information from faces is far from clear.

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© 1999 Cambridge University Press