How do we perceive and understand faces?
Posted on 9 January 2015
In everyday life we typically take for granted the many different ways we read information from other people’s faces. Yet, recognising individual faces, understanding people’s emotions and forming impressions about someone’s sex, age, or character are each thought to depend on different psychological processes and brain systems.
In a recent audio interview produced by the British Psychological Society, Professor Andy Young explains the evidence and theory behind the surprisingly complex mechanisms of human face perception in conversation with science journalist Wendy Barnaby.
Professor Young is one of the world’s most cited Psychologists and was winner of the BPS 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge.