<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear FieldTrippers,<br><br><br></div>I would like to advertise a Special Issue hosted by Frontiers in Human Neuroscience entitled: "Facing the other: Novel theories and methods in face perception research".<br>
<br></div><div>Here is the link: <br><a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Facing_the_other_Novel_theorie/1903">http://www.frontiersin.org/Human_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Facing_the_other_Novel_theorie/1903</a><br>
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                            Davide  Rivolta</a>,
                        <span id="ctl00_ctl00_MainContentPlaceHolder_ContentAreaMainContent_ucSpecialTopicDetailList_repSpecialTopicsAuthors_ctl00_lblHostedBy_University" class="">Max Planck Society, Germany</span>
                        
                        
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                            Aina  Puce</a>,
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                            Mark A. Williams</a>,
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            </p><br><br></div><div>Abstract:<br>We rely heavily on faces during social interactions. Humans possess the 
ability to recognise thousands of people very quickly and accurately 
without effort. The serious social difficulties that follow 
abnormalities of the face recognition system (i.e., prosopagnosia) 
strongly underline the importance of typical face skills in our everyday
 life. Over the last fifty years, research on prosopagnosia, along with 
research in the healthy population, has provided insights into the 
cognitive and neural features behind typical face recognition. This has 
also been achieved thanks to non-invasive neuroimaging techniques such 
as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Electroencephalography 
(EEG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and 
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). However, there is still much 
debate about the cognitive and neural mechanisms of face perception.   <br>In
 the current “Research Topic” we plan to gather experimental works, 
opinions, commentaries, mini-reviews and reviews that focus on new or 
novel theories and methods in face perception research. Where is the 
field at the moment? Do we need to re-think the experimental procedures 
we have adopted so far? Again, what kind of techniques (or combination 
of them) and analysis methods will be important in the future? From the 
experimental point of view we invite both behavioural and neuroimaging 
contributions (e.g., fMRI, EEG, MEG, DTI and TMS).   <br>Despite the 
main emphasis on face perception, memory and identification, we will 
also consider original works that focus on other aspects of face 
processing, such as expression recognition, attractiveness judgments and
 face imagery. In addition, animal investigations and experimental 
manipulations that alter face recognition abilities in typical human 
subjects (e.g., hypnosis) are also welcome. Overall, we are proposing a 
Research Topic that looks at face processing using different 
perspectives and welcome contributions from different domains such as 
psychology, neurology, neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy.  
  <br><br>Last year we lost two giants in the field: Shlomo Bentin and 
Truett Allison. We dedicate this Research Topic to them and their 
pioneering studies.
<br><br><br><br><br></div><div>Bests,<br></div><div>Davide<br></div></div>