Face perception
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Face perception is the process by which the brain and mind understand and interpret the face, particularly the human face.
The human face's proportions and expressions are important to identify origin, emotional tendencies, health qualities, and some social information. From birth, faces are important in the individual's social interaction. Face perceptions are very complex as the recognition of facial expressions involves extensive and diverse areas in the brain. Sometimes, damaged parts of the brain can cause specific impairments in understanding faces or prosopagnosia.
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See also
- Apophenia, seeing meaningful patterns in random data
- Autism
- Capgras delusion
- Cognitive neuropsychology
- Cross-race effect
- Delusional misidentification syndrome
- Facial expression
- Facial recognition system
- Fregoli delusion
- Hollow-Face illusion
- Nonverbal learning disorder
- Pareidolia
- Prosopagnosia
- Social cognition
- Social intelligence
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