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Advances in Face Perception and How Disorders Affect Face Perception
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Advances in Face Perception and How Disorders Affect Face Perception

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 900

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Karen Lander

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Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
Interests: face recognition; face perception; biological motion; individual differences
Dr. Rachel Bennetts

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Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London, London UB8 3PH, UK
Interests: face recognition; face perception; prosopagnosia; development; developmental disorders; eye movements
Dr. Natalie Butcher

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Department of Psychology, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3BX, UK
Interests: face recognition; face perception; biological motion; race; social processing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Since the 1960s, we have learnt a considerable amount about the cognitive and neural underpinnings of face perception and recognition. We have explored different types of face perception tasks—from detection to identification—as well as the specialised processes underpinning them. We have published cognitive and neural models of face perception. More recently, we have started to consider the importance of individual differences in our face perception and recognition ability, both within the general population and in people whose face recognition is extremely poor (developmental prosopagnosia) or extremely good (super-recognisers). Further, we have identified atypical face identity perception and recognition in a number of other disorders, such as developmental dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, autism spectrum disorders, and some neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions.

This Special Issue aims to advance our knowledge of face perception and disorders that affect face perception. This encompasses experimental, neural, computational, patient-based, and real-world studies of face perception or recognition and its disorders. We encourage papers that advance our understanding of the neural or cognitive underpinnings of the face processing system, and/or the mechanisms associated with atypical face perception and disorders affecting face perception.

Original articles, literature reviews, meta-analyses, brief reports, and commentaries are welcomed.

Dr. Karen Lander
Dr. Rachel Bennetts
Dr. Natalie Butcher
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • face perception
  • face recognition
  • prosopagnosia
  • neurodevelopmental disorders
  • individual differences
  • clinical disorders

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The Effects of Handedness Consistency on the Identification of Own- and Cross-Race Faces
by Raymond P. Voss, Jr., Ryan Corser, Stephen Prunier and John D. Jasper
Brain Sci. 2025, 15(8), 828; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci15080828 - 31 Jul 2025
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Background/Objectives: People are better at recognizing the faces of racial in-group members than out-group members. This own-race bias relies on pattern recognition and memory processes, which rely on hemispheric specialization. We hypothesized that handedness, a proxy for hemispheric specialization, would moderate own-race [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: People are better at recognizing the faces of racial in-group members than out-group members. This own-race bias relies on pattern recognition and memory processes, which rely on hemispheric specialization. We hypothesized that handedness, a proxy for hemispheric specialization, would moderate own-race bias. Specifically, consistently handed individuals perform better on tasks that require the hemispheres to work independently, while inconsistently handed individuals perform better on tasks that require integration. This led to the hypothesis that inconsistently handed individuals would show less own-race bias, driven by an increase in accuracy. Methods: 281 participants completed the study in exchange for course credit. Of those, the sample was isolated to Caucasian (174) and African American individuals (41). Participants were shown two target faces (one Caucasian and one African American), given several distractor tasks, and then asked to identify the target faces during two sequential line-ups, each terminating when participants made an identification judgment. Results: Continuous handedness score and the match between participant race and target face race were entered into a binary logistic regression predicting correct/incorrect identifications. The overall model was statistically significant, Χ2 (3, N = 430) = 11.036, p = 0.012, Nagelkerke R2 = 0.038, culminating in 76% correct classifications. Analyses of the parameter estimates showed that the racial match, b = 0.53, SE = 0.23, Wald Χ2 (1) = 5.217, p = 0.022, OR = 1.703 and the interaction between handedness and the racial match, b = 0.51, SE = 0.23, Wald test = 4.813, p = 0.028, OR = 1.671 significantly contributed to the model. The model indicated that the probability of identification was similar for own- or cross-race targets amongst inconsistently handed individuals. Consistently handed individuals, by contrast, showed an increase in accuracy for the own-race target and a decrease in accuracy for cross-race targets. Conclusions: Results partially supported the hypotheses. Inconsistently handed individuals did show less own-race bias. This finding, however, seemed to be driven by differences in accuracy amongst consistently handed individuals rather than a hypothesized increase in accuracy amongst inconsistently handed individuals. Underlying hemispheric specialization, as measured by proxy with handedness, may impact the own-race bias in facial recognition. Future research is required to investigate the mechanisms, however, as the directional differences were different than hypothesized. Full article
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