From Super Recognisers to the Face Blind

Why are some people better at recognising faces?

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-887434-8 (ISBN)

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There is a long history of face recognition research in psychology. Typically, performance is averaged across individuals to investigate the effect of factors like age or sex on face recognition performance. However, over the last 15 years or so, research has started to consider how and why some people are better at recognising faces than others.

Some individuals possess an exceptional ability to recognise faces, known as 'super-recognisers', while others struggle significantly to recognise the people around them, a condition known as prosopagnosia or 'face blindness'. These differences may be attributed to a combination of genetic, neurological, socioemotional and environmental factors. Understanding these individual differences is crucial in fields such as psychology, neuroscience and security, as it helps tailor possible approaches to enhance face recognition skills and, in the future, develop supportive technologies for those who struggle with it.

From Super Recognisers to the Face Blind provides readers with a wide-ranging, detailed, and critical overview of individual differences in face recognition ability. It provides insights into why some people are better at recognising faces than others and the possible consequences of these differences, carefully detailing the scientific knowledge on this emerging topic.

Karen Lander is an Experimental Psychologist at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been researching face recognition for over 25 years with a particular focus on individual differences in the last decade. She is especially interested in understanding the theoretical mechanisms behind these differences and their practical consequences in the real-world.

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List of Contributors
1: Karen Lander: How much variation is there in face recognition?
2: Antônio Mello;Brad Duchaine: What do we know about people with developmental prosopagnosia?
3: David White: What is special about super-recognisers?
4: Holger Wiese;Maria Ciocan: How are individual differences in face recognition ability related to heritability, environmental factors, and neuro-cognitive implementation?
5: Kyriaki Giannou;Karen Lander: Is face recognition ability related to socio-emotional functioning or personality?
6: James W. Tanaka;Megan K. Lall: How do people recognise 'own-' and 'other-' race faces?
7: Jodie Davies-Thompson;Jeremy J Tree;Jason J. S. Barton: Can training improve face recognition in typical, autistic, and prosopagnosic individuals?
8: Professor Markus Bindemann;Professor Sarah Bate: What are the implications of individual differences in face identification ability for occupations involving face recognition?
9: Karen Lander;Andy Young: What are the practical and theoretical implications of individual differences?
10: Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
ISBN-10	0-19-887434-0 / 0198874340
ISBN-13	978-0-19-887434-8 / 9780198874348
Zustand	Neuware