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ERC Advanced Grant · 2021

Human Face Identity Categorization: Bridging the Gap between Vision and Social Semantics

HUMANFACE is based on a proposed global theory of human face identity recognition, conceptualized as a categorization function (i.e., Face Identity Categorization, FIC). FIC is considered as the pinnacle of categorization in human adults, who perform this function rapidly and automatically, despite a large, undetermined, and flexible number of categories of identities experienced throughout life. The core theoretical hypothesis of HUMANFACE is that semantic representations of person identity precede and guide the development of visual face identity representations throughout lifetime. Hence, contrary to standard theoretical models, there is no border between “visual perception” and…

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