According to a widely used theoretical perspective, our everyday experiences lead us to become natural experts at perceiving and recognising human faces. However, there has been considerable debate about this view. We discuss criteria for expertise and show how the debate over face expertise has often missed key points concerning the role and nature of face familiarity. For identity recognition, most of us show only limited expertise with unfamiliar faces. Carefully evaluating the senses in which it is appropriate or inappropriate to assert that we are face experts leads to the conclusion that we are, in effect, familiar face experts.

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我们是面对专家吗？

根据广泛使用的理论观点，我们的日常经验使我们成为感知和识别人脸的天生专家。然而，对于这种观点，已经有相当多的争论。我们讨论了专业知识的标准，并展示了关于人脸专业知识的辩论如何经常忽略有关面孔熟悉度的作用和性质的关键点。对于身份识别，我们大多数人对陌生面孔仅表现出有限的专业知识。仔细评估断言我们是人脸专家的适当或不适当的感觉会得出我们实际上是熟悉的人脸专家的结论。