TY  - JOUR
AB  - Humans are experts in face perception. We are better able to distinguish between the differences of faces and their components than between any other kind of objects. Several studies investigating the underlying neural networks provided evidence for deviated face processing in criminal individuals, although results are often confounded by accompanying mental or addiction disorders. On the other hand, face processing in non-criminal healthy persons can be of high juridical interest in cases of witnessing a felony and afterward identifying a culprit. Memory and therefore recognition of a person can be affected by many parameters and thus become distorted. But also face processing itself is modulated by different factors like facial characteristics, degree of familiarity, and emotional relation. These factors make the comparison of different cases, as well as the transfer of laboratory results to real live settings very challenging. Several neuroimaging studies have been published in recent years and some progress was made connecting certain brain activation patterns with the correct recognition of an individual. However, there is still a long way to go before brain imaging can make a reliable contribution to court procedures.
DA  - 2013
DO  - 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00189
KW  - fMRI
KW  - brain imaging
KW  - identification
KW  - real-life events
KW  - eyewitness memory
KW  - eyewitness testimony
KW  - face processing
KW  - offender's
KW  - memory
LA  - eng
PY  - 2013
SN  - 1662-5153
T2  - Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
TI  - The neuroscience of face processing and identification in eyewitnesses and offenders
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-26451649
Y2  - 2024-11-22T00:33:09
ER  -