Faces in their social and biological context

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The central theme of this chapter is neatly defined by the question posed by Teuber in 1978. He asked whether faces, with their relatively greater dependence on the right hemisphere, “special” in a similar way to that in which speech, with its dependence (in most of us) on the left hemisphere are said to be “special” or not. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that the term “special” is not clearly defined. There are a number of theoretical approaches to understanding how people recognize faces and read other information from them. The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate just how a face-processing module may operate by outlining some of the principal functional components necessary to support such a system.

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