ANNOUNCING A NEW SPECIAL ISSUE
or, as we say in the Open Access, On-Line World,
A New Thematic Series
for Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications (CRPI)
Individual differences
in face perception and person recognition.
Co-organizers:
Professor Vicki Bruce, Newcastle University
(Vicki.Bruce@ncl.ac.uk<mailto:Vicki.Bruce@ncl.ac.uk>)
Dr Karen Lander, University of Manchester
(Karen.Lander@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Karen.Lander@manchester.ac.uk>)
Dr Markus Bindemann, University of Kent
(M.Bindemann@kent.ac.uk<mailto:M.Bindemann@kent.ac.uk>)
The field of face perception and person recognition has developed rapidly over the past 40
years, and we now have advanced understanding of how human brains process human faces, and
the relationships between face processing and the perception of other aspects of the
person such as voices and bodies. Despite this increase in knowledge, problems of
misidentification continue to arise in criminal and security contexts, and many wider
social activities rely on accurate reading of faces from subtle social signals. Recent
research has highlighted considerable variability in individual abilities to decipher and
recognise faces. For example, much attention has been given to recruiting
‘super’-recognisers who are particularly good at face recognition to assist in the
identification of criminals. Can an understanding of individual differences more widely
help in the recruitment and/or training of professionals, or in the use of eyewitness
testimony? This special topic seeks research papers that investigate the nature of
individual differences in face perception and/or person recognition, and which consider
theoretical alongside applied implications of their findings.
Please email one or more of the guest editors with any questions about submissions.
CRPI is the open access journal of the Psychonomic Society. Its mission is to publish
use-inspired basic
research<https://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1…-x>:
fundamental cognitive research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems. As
with all Psychonomic Society journals, submissions to CRPI are subject to rigorous peer
review.
For manuscripts accepted for the special issue, the publication fee may be fully or
partially waived depending on the number of manuscripts accepted for the special issue.
The authors should indicate when they submit a manuscript if they are requesting a waiver
of the publication fee.
Deadline: manuscripts should be submitted before December 31st, 2017
You can find manuscript submission details at
http://cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/submission-guidelines/prep…
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Harvard Medical School
Visual Attention Lab
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CRPI is the new open access, peer-reviewed journal of the Psychonomics Society
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