art perception and appreciation by ma aurora ortiz pdf

Compared to perception of non-face visual objects, perception of faces is a highly efficient and sophisticated process ( 1, 2). As social beings, humans fittingly possess a robust perceptual capacity to process these and other facial features. The information carried by these facial features is of the paramount importance for social life.

These features include aspects of face as a special visual object, as a personal identity, as a member of a race group, as an indicator of age, as an indicator of gender and as an expression of emotion. These findings suggest a need for a domain-specific therapeutic approach to the improvement of face perception in schizophrenia.įace perception represents a behavioral capacity to perceive various types of physical and social features embedded in faces. We highlight the implications of multiple processing domains and face-specific processes as potential mechanisms underlying compromised face perception in schizophrenia. In this selective review, we discuss the investigative findings relevant to the issues of cognitive and affective association and face-specific processing. Recent investigations have further assessed the associations between face processing and basic visual processing and between face processing and social cognitive processing such as Theory of Mind. Recent investigations have probed into the components of face perception processes such as visual detection, identity recognition, emotion expression discrimination and working memory conveyed from faces.

One particular issue was whether face-specific processing is implicated in this psychiatric disorder. Given that face perception involves visual/cognitive and affective processing, the roles of these two processing domains in the compromised face perception in schizophrenia were studied and discussed, but not clearly defined. In past decades, extensive research showed that the ability to perceive facial emotion expression was compromised in schizophrenia patients. Perception of facial features is crucial in social life.

Art perception and appreciation by ma aurora ortiz pdf