Overview
This text, written to acompany an exhibition of the same title at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Spring 1998, provides a non-technical introduction to the science of the human face and the psychology of face perception. Illustrated throughout, the book includes reproductions of portraits from the gallery's collections, as well as state-of-the-art computer graphics. Incorporating discussion of vision, communication, memory and recognition, sociobiology, and neuroscience, this is a broad-ranging introduction to the topic. The book should be of interest to anyone wishing to learn about the many ways in which the human face is important biologically, and how we perceive and recognize it.
Full Product Details
Author: Vicki Bruce ,
Andrew W. Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 18.00cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 1.056kg
ISBN: 9780198524403
ISBN 10: 0198524404
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 01 June 1998
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Evolution has bestowed a remarkably expressive face on humans, and we have used it to communicate a dazzlingly wide variety of information to one another.. The authors, both psychologists and longtime researchers in the field of how we express messages with our faces and how we decipher them, have provided a cogent summary of what is known, as well as some interesting speculation on what seems likely. Because the book was originally written to accompany an exhibit at the Scottish National Gallery, it features a wide and appealing variety of illustrations drawn from artworks, in addition to a number of photographs, some computer-enhanced. The manner in which we use information derived from our reactions to faces to make decisions on concerns as disparate as truthfulness and sexual appeal, and the means by which the brain processes data drawn from our perpetual study of the faces around us are covered in depth here. While the authors write with clarity, the detail of the study and the emphasis on scientific investigation make this a work of interest primarily to students and others involved in some aspect of the field, though a serious layperson should find much here of interest. A handsomely presented report on an emerging field of research. (Kirkus Reviews)
Author Information
Vicki Bruce is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Stirling. Andrew Young is a Professor in the MRC Applied Psychology Unit at Cambridge University.
