Facial Expression Recognition: Selected works of Andy Young

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major theoretical and practical contributions.This volume of self-selected papers recognises Andy Young's major contribution to the study of face perception, for which he received the BPS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013.Focusing on his work in facial expression recognition, a specially written introduction gives an overview of his work and contextualises the selection in relation to developments in the field during this time. Divided into five distinct sections, the book covers work on both theoretical and experimental approaches to facial expression recognition, neuropsychology, functional brain imaging, and applications of research. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of cognitive psychology or neuropsychology interested in face perception. It will also appeal to those with an interest in the highly varied applications of the research and provide insight into a number of clinical disorders.

About the Author

Andy Young is Professor of Psychology at the University of York, UK. He has more than 40 years of experience researching different aspects of face perception, and has held posts at the Universities of Aberdeen, Lancaster, Durham and York, and the Medical Research Council. In 2013 he won the British Psychological Society's Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge.