Integrating holistic processing and face-space approaches to the perception of facial identity

人脸识别是一项至关重要的社会任务，人类在这方面非常擅长。研究我们大脑用来识别人脸的“软件”的科学家们提到了两种不同的理论——一种是在解释为什么我们比物体更能分辨人脸，另一种是在解释为什么我们比其他人更容易分辨某些人的脸。该项目旨在整合这两种理论。这有两个潜在的长期好处：它将为理解人脸识别不能正常发展的人的问题提供更强有力的基础；而且，来自生物系统的改进知识也可能导致改进的计算机人脸识别算法(例如。机场安检)。

Recognising faces is a socially crucial task, and humans are remarkably good at it. Scientists investigating the 'software' our brains use to recognise faces have referred to two different theories -- one when explaining why we distinguish faces better than objects, and the other in explaining why we distinguish some people's faces more easily than others. The project aims to integrate these two theories. This has two potential long-term benefits: it will give a stronger basis for understanding what goes wrong in people where face recognition does not develop normally; and, the improved knowledge from a biological system may also lead to improved computer face recognition algorithms (eg. for airport security).