Call for Papers

[Itiel Dror]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Pragmatics & Cognition announces a special issue on

FACIAL INFORMATION PROCESSING: 
A MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE

Guest Editors

Itiel E. Dror and Sarah V. Stevenage

In many senses, faces are at the center of human interaction.  
At a very basic level, faces indicate identity.  However, faces 
are remarkably rich information carriers. For example, facial 
gestures may be used as means of conveying intentions.  
Faces may also permit a direct glimpse into the person's inner 
self (by unintentionally revealing, for example, aspects of 
character or mood).  Given their salient role, the processing of 
the information conveyed by faces and its integration with 
other sources of interactional information raise important 
issues in cognition and pragmatics.

Research on facial information processing has investigated 
these (and other) issues utilizing a variety of approaches and 
methodologies, and developments in both computer and 
cognitive sciences have recently carried this research forward.  
The emerging picture is that there are cognitive subsystems 
which specialize in different aspects of facial processing.  This 
has been supported by neuropsychological evidence 
suggesting that brain damaged patients show dissociations 
between the different aspects of face processing.  In addition, 
research on the development of facial processing abilities, and 
on aspects of the face itself which affect these processing 
abilities, has contributed to our understanding of how facial 
information is perceived.

This special issue of Pragmatics and Cognition is intended to 
provide a common forum for a variety of the topics currently 
under investigation.  Given the breadth of issues and 
approaches used to investigate faces, we encourage 
submissions from a wide range of disciplines.  Our aim is that 
this special issue will tie together the diverse research on 
faces, and show their links and interdependencies. 


Deadline for submission: August 1, 1998
Editorial decisions: November 1, 1998
Revised papers due: February 1, 1999
Expected publication: October 1999

Papers should be submitted according to the guidelines of the 
journal (see WWW URL: 
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~dror/guideline.html).  All 
submissions will be peer reviewed. Please send five copies of 
your submission either to:

Dr. Itiel Dror (dror at coglab.psy.soton.ac.uk) or: 
Dr. Sarah Stevenage (svs1 at soton.ac.uk)

Dept. of Psychology
Southampton University
Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ
England

For additional and updated information see WWW URL:
http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~dror/faces.html 
or contact either of the guest editors.



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