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The possibility of people to recognize specific individual faces is of great social significance for human beings . In addition , it is also essential in terms of evolution . As a result , faces could be special stimuli for which people have developed a unique modular perceptual and recognition processes . An evidence as to why face processing is becoming modular is the case of prosopagnosia whereby patients become unable to recognize faces while at the same time they can retain their ability to recognize

other objects (Riddoch , 2008 . The manner in which human faces are perceived is very strongly influenced by their orientation although inverted photographs of faces remain difficult to recognize mainly because they lose their expressive distinctiveness hence becoming impossible to categorize them . According to Literature , the important features which are used to distinguish faces are normally represented in memory with respect to the normal upright posture hence an inverted face must be positioned mentally upright before it can be recognized . It could also be difficult to reorient stimuli which have multiple parts and more especially hard to recognize inverted stimuli in which the distinguishing features involve relations among adjacent contours Therefore , the fact that the recognition of human faces is more susceptible to stimulus inversion than is recognition of any other group of stimuli has been considered as evidence that faces are a special stimuli

Empirical evidence in standard behavioral paradigms show that faces are recognized using a different method of...