Person Perception from Face and Voice

In the 1980s several information processing models of face recognition were designed by cognitive psychologists. Among them, the famous Bruce and Young (1986) model appeared as particularly seminal. Following the publication of that model, a huge number of studies were conducted by psychologists and neuropsychologists in order to test the model with both healthy people and brain-injured patients. Although several amendments to the original model were proposed during the last 25 years, the general architecture of the Bruce and Young model is still considered as a useful theoretical framework guiding empirical research (see Hanley, 2011). The interest for voice recognition, or person recognition from the voice, started a little later. These first models proposed in the 1990s (e.g., Ellis, Jones, & Mosdell, 1997) were widely and explicitly inspired by the Bruce and Young model. Most of these models applied to voice recognition the processing stages that were earlier considered for face recognition (i.e., structural encoding / rec