Do I know you? : from face blindness to super recognition / Sharrona Pearl.

"This work considers the spectrum of face recognition from face blindness to super-recognizers and the influence of face evaluation on race, gender, class and ability judgments"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Pearl, Sharrona (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Inventing a spectrum
  • 1. Thinking in cases: a somewhat failed search for origins
  • 2. The blindness of great men; or, how prosopagnosia was invented
  • 3. More men, more invention: the other side of the spectrum (and two sides of the same story)
  • 4. A super useless skill: meet the supers
  • 5. Face surveillance at the border: Checkpoint Charlie
  • 6. Face recognition software and machine translation: why computers aren't people
  • 7. Is there dyslexia without reading?
  • Conclusion: Beyond the face
  • Coda: The dectective story
  • Notes
  • Index.