Face perception
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As social beings, other people’s faces are a major point of interest and a great source of information. Interpreting people’s facial expressions or following their gaze allows us to infer their emotional states, intentions and attention. In other words, faces are key stimuli of social interaction. Unsurprisingly, detecting, recognising, and interpreting faces are highly important skills from infancy through adulthood that help us survive in a social world, in which we often rely on interaction and cooperation. However, certain conditions, such as autism spectrum conditions, have been associated with impaired face perception, which might be an underlying cause for social difficulties.
This Collection welcomes work from various areas of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, studying the development and underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of face perception as well as its role in social interaction and neurological or psychiatric conditions.
Editors
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Mario Dalmaso
University of Padova, Italy
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Maria Ida Gobbini
University of Bologna, Italy
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Anna Pecchinenda
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Paola Ricciardelli
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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Kay Ritchie
University of Lincoln, UK
Mario Dalmaso is an Assistant Professor and Experimental Psychologist at the University of Padova, Italy. He is interested in how social stimuli can shape visual attention and perception. His approaches include behavioral, oculomotor, and psychophysiological measures. Dr Dalmaso has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Maria Ida Gobbini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine – DIMES, University of Bologna, Italy. Her research focus is on the cognitive and neural mechanisms for person perception with a particular emphasis on how people recognize familiar individuals, access person knowledge, and form and update representations of others. Dr Gobbini has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Anna Pecchinenda is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the Psychology Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She is a cognitive psychologist, and her research is particularly focused on the investigation of emotion-attention interactions. Dr Pecchinenda has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
Paola Ricciardelli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Her research interests focus on gaze direction and face perception, facial expressions, joint attention and autism spectrum disorders in adults. Dr Ricciardelli has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2015.
Kay Ritchie is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, UK. Her work on face perception spans three main areas: 1) face recognition and learning; 2) social information conveyed by faces; 3) the use of automatic face recognition technology, particularly in criminal justice. Dr Ritchie has been an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports since 2021.
