Neurophysiology of Face Perception and Social Information Processing

Face perception of brain involves a series of neural processes that enable and facilitate the perception, recognition, and interpretation of the face, particularly the human face. While face perception allows humans to readily recognize faces from other non-face objects and to distinguish individual identities based on face, it also facilitates processing social information by enabling us to read emotions and make impression from faces. This wiki page summarizes brain areas involved in general face processing and neural basis of face perception that entails social information processing.