「面孔」相關的近年英文書籍匯總
這裡我推薦的書都是英文書，可能對於一些希望讀中文書的朋友抱歉了；而且絕大多數書由於是國外出版，價格不是很低；但是我覺得它們大多印刷裝幀很好，30美刀以內應該可以承擔。為什麼推薦英文書呢？我實在我也不是謙虛，至少在面孔方面，除了我自己寫的紙質書《看臉》，其餘沒有特別系統介紹面孔研究的書。而在視覺領域，雖然有中文書，但是比較老，不適用於目前時代。每本書的題目我已經連接到了美國亞馬遜網站，希望大家看的開心。英文推薦直接複製與亞馬遜，很抱歉微微侵權。
第一部分：面孔
首推 David Perrett 教授的書 In Your Face
關鍵詞： 科普 面孔 社會神經科學 美貌
Perrett教授是我個人最熟悉也最為憧憬的神經科學家。他在漫長的學術生涯中在兩個不同的視覺領域都做出了傑出貢獻。這本書可謂全球最好的面孔研究的科普書籍。深入淺出，乾貨多到嚇死我。他這一本書，涵蓋了整個面孔領域，更可怕的是實驗基本都是他自己做的。這種深度讓我折服，也是激勵我自己寫這本書的原因。當然，當年我也拿到了他翻譯這本書的許可，無奈沒有中國出版社有興趣啊。。。。當然，他這本書可不是泛泛談臉。而是集合他多年研究之力，只談面孔的美貌。這也是我最推薦的科普書。英文介紹：What makes a face attractive? Why are we attracted to certain faces and not others? In this highly readable account from the frontiers of psychology, the author explains how the human face evolved and how our perceptions of the face affect our judgments of others personality, health, trustworthiness, and suitability as a friend or lover.
其次，我推薦 Bruce和Young合著的 Face Perception
關鍵詞： 面孔 神經科學 科研
這可不是科普書，是實實在在的科研綜述。他倆對於面孔研究的堪稱奠基之人。調理邏輯無懈可擊。總結和旁徵博引讓我高山仰止。但凡是面孔相關的內容，這一本書里都能找到。而且結構和思路可以說是被大師整理之後清澈見底。做科研不得不看。
英文介紹：Human faces are unique biological structures that convey a complex variety of important social messages. Even strangers can tell things from our faces – our feelings, our locus of attention, something of what we are saying, our age, sex and ethnic group, whether they find us attractive. In recent years there has been genuine progress in understanding how our brains derive all these different messages from faces and what can happen when one or other of the structures involved is damaged.
再其次，我推薦諸位面孔研究大師的合力作品：Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (Oxford Library of Psychology) (9780199559053): Andy Calder, Gillian Rhodes, Mark Johnson, Jim Haxby: Books
關鍵詞： 面孔 神經科學 科研
熟悉面孔研究的人就能從這一長串名字中看出端倪。這本書匯聚了最好的面孔研究人員。他們每一組科研人員各自寫一章綜述。讓最專業的人給你最專業的研究成果。在其中我們還能看到持不同觀點的科學家相互爭鬥。唯一的缺憾就是相比上一本書更加科研，更加難懂。而且節奏不同。但是無論如何，倘若你和我一樣致力於此，這本書就是最適合你迅速抓到前沿思路的。
英文推薦：The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A persons identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans also display a surprising degree of consistency in the extent to which personality traits, such as trustworthiness and likeability, are attributed to faces. In the past thirty years, face perception has become an area of major interest within psychology, with a rapidly expanding research base. Yet until now, there has been no comprehensive reference work bringing together this ever growing body of research.
The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception is the most comprehensive and commanding review of the field ever published. It looks at the functional and neural mechanisms underlying the perception, representation, and interpretation of facial characteristics, such as identity, expression, eye gaze, attractiveness, personality, and race. It examines the development of these processes, their neural correlates in both human and non-human primates, congenital and acquired disorders resulting from their breakdown, and the theoretical and computational frameworks for their underlying mechanisms. With chapters by an international team of leading authorities from the brain sciences, the book is a landmark publication on face perception.For anyone looking for the definitive text on this burgeoning field, this is the essential book.
最後一本，難度最高。是Peterson和Rhodes共同編輯的 Perception of Faces, Objects, and Scenes: Analytic and Holistic Processes
關鍵詞： 面孔 神經科學 科研
真本書雖然最老，但是最深最難。對得起小標題（高級視覺認知）。這一本書類似於上一本牛津手冊，也是來自於諸位科學家。這本書主要探討和比較面孔與物體識別之間的差異，尤其是在整體和局部識別。難度在這幾本書里最高，也需要最豐富的知識儲備。只推薦研究生以上，並且有視覺認知基礎的科研工作者。
英文推薦：From a barrage of photons, we readily and effortlessly recognize the faces of our friends, and the familiar objects and scenes around us. However, these tasks cannot be simple for our visual systems--faces are all extremely similar as visual patterns, and objects look quite different when viewed from different viewpoints. How do our visual systems solve these problems? The contributors to this volume seek to answer this question by exploring how analytic and holistic processes contribute to our perception of faces, objects, and scenes. The role of parts and wholes in perception has been studied for a century, beginning with the debate between Structuralists, who championed the role of elements, and Gestalt psychologists, who argued that the whole was different from the sum of its parts. This is the first volume to focus on the current state of the debate on parts versus wholes as it exists in the field of visual perception by bringing together the views of the leading researchers. Too frequently, researchers work in only one domain, so they are unaware of the ways in which holistic and analytic processing are defined in different areas. The contributors to this volume ask what analytic and holistic processes are like; whether they contribute differently to the perception of faces, objects, and scenes; whether different cognitive and neural mechanisms code holistic and analytic information; whether a single, universal system can be sufficient for visual-information processing, and whether our subjective experience of holistic perception might be nothing more than a compelling illusion. The result is a snapshot of the current thinking on how the processing of wholes and parts contributes to our remarkable ability to recognize faces, objects, and scenes, and an illustration of the diverse conceptions of analytic and holistic processing that currently coexist, and the variety of approaches that have been brought to bear on the issues.
第二部分：視覺
我先推薦Livingstone的 Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
關鍵詞：視覺 神經美學 腦科學
不愧是Hubel最好的學生，Livingstone寫這個內容駕輕就熟。從基礎的視覺開始，給我們解釋清楚了大腦怎麼去欣賞古典到現代的視覺藝術。我們為什麼會喜愛蒙娜麗莎，為什麼會喜歡莫奈。同時，這本書算是我看過的把低級視覺過程解釋的最清楚的書。應該是因為全彩的插圖吧！
英文推薦：Now in paperback, this groundbreaking study by Harvard neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone explores the inner workings of vision, demonstrating that how we see art depends ultimately on the cells in our eyes and our brains. In Vision and Art,Livingstone explains how great painters fool the brain: why Mona Lisa s smile seems so mysterious, Monet s Poppy Field appears to sway in the breeze, Mondrian s Broadway Boogie Woogie blinks like the lights of Times Square, and Warhol s Electric Chair pulses with current. Drawing on history and her own cutting- edge discoveries, Livingstone offers intriguing insights, from explanations of common optical illusions, to speculations on the correlation of learning disabilities with artistic skill. By skillfully bridging the space between science and art, Vision and Art will both arm artists and designers with new techniques that they can use in their own craft, and thrill any reader with an interest in the biology of human vision.
其次，我推薦一本真真的新書。李兆平教授的Understanding Vision
David Marr的巨作Vision已經面世了三十餘年。雖然激勵無數科學家，但是難免內容已經過時。這個時候，zhaoping這本書給了我們最新的計算視覺知識。相比Peter Dayan那本幾乎看不懂的Theoretical Neuroscience，zhaoping對於解釋的節奏和程度都掌握的特別好。而且跳過公式完全可以讀。推薦給研究vision的所有博士及以上。
英文推薦：While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past two decades, there have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional approach to understanding visual perception, along with the underlying mechanisms in the brain.
Understanding Vision explains the computational principles and models of biological visual processing, and in particular, of primate vision. The book is written in such a way that vision scientists, unfamiliar with mathematical details, should be able to conceptually follow the theoretical principles and their relationship with physiological, anatomical, and psychological observations, without going through the more mathematical pages. For those with a physical science background, especially those from machine vision, this book serves as an analytical introduction to biological vision. It can be used as a textbook or a reference book in a vision course, or a computational neuroscience course for graduate students or advanced undergraduate students. It is also suitable for self-learning by motivated readers. in addition, for those with a focused interest in just one of the topics in the book, it is feasible to read just the chapter on this topic without having read or fully comprehended the other chapters. In particular, Chapter 2 presents a brief overview of experimental observations on biological vision; Chapter 3 is on encoding of visual inputs, Chapter 5 is on visual attentional selection driven by sensory inputs, and Chapter 6 is on visual perception or decoding. Including many examples that clearly illustrate the application of computational principles to experimental observations, Understanding Vision is valuable for students and researchers in computational neuroscience, vision science, machine and computer vision, as well as physicists interested in visual processes.
還有彩蛋一個
推薦了這麼多本書，不知道何時能看完呢！但是翻翻看也好呀！
謝謝@撕家。
最後提前祝大家，雞年大吉吧！
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