title: Recognizing moving faces: a psychological and neural synthesis.
abstract: Information for identifying a human face can be found both in the invariant structure of features and in idiosyncratic movements and gestures. When both kinds of information are available, psychological evidence indicates that: (1) dynamic information contributes more to recognition under non-optimal viewing conditions, e.g. poor illumination, low image resolution, recognition from a distance; (2) dynamic information contributes more as a viewer's experience with the face increases; and (3) a structure-from-motion analysis can make a perceptually based contribution to face recognition. A recently proposed distributed neural system for face perception, with minor modifications, can accommodate the psychological findings with moving faces.
authors.affiliation: School of Human Development, GR4.1, University of Texas at Dallas, 75083, Richardson, TX, USA
authors.forename: Alice J.
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: O'Toole
authors.forename: Dana A.
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Roark
authors.forename: Hervé
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abdi