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Constantin Rezlescu, Department of Psychology, Harvard University,, Author

Tirta Susilo, Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London, UK,, Author

Jason J.S. Barton, Departments of Medicine (Neurology) and Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada,, Author

Brad Duchaine, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, USA,, Author

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2013 - 2014

Executive Summary

Cortex, Volume 50, January 2014, Pages 200–203.

People frequently evaluate facial attractiveness and make inferences about character traits from faces, and these evaluations are consistent across observers (Todorov, Said, & Verosky, 2011). Do these face evaluations rely on the same perceptual mechanisms as facial identity recognition? By using three test formats, one of which is identical to the format used to assess identity processing (CFPT), our findings provide firm evidence that identity processing and face evaluations can dissociate in prosopagnosia.