Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces

• Published in: Visual cognition Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 179 - 195
• Main Authors: Ramon, Meike, Gobbini, Maria Ida
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hove Routledge 16.03.2018; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: detection; ERPs; Familiarity; fMRI; identification; Pattern recognition; Personally familiar face processing; recognition; Social interactions

In this review, we synthesize the existing literature investigating personally familiar face processing and highlight the remarkable, enhanced processing efficiency resulting from real-life experience. Highly learned identity-specific visual and semantic information associated with personally famili...