Resumen. La memoria de rostros y el reconocimiento emocional son procesos de gran interés para la psicología contemporánea. Desde la aparición del modelo de Bruce y Young en 1986 se han realizados importantes avances en la comprensión de los mecanismos que determinan estos procesos; para ello los investigadores se han apoyado en herramientas como la neuroimagen funcional y el registro de potenciales evocados. Esto ha propiciado la existencia de un mayor conocimiento de la memoria de rostros y el reconocimiento de emociones, facilitando su utilización en diversas áreas aplicadas. Este trabajo sintetiza los principales avances en este campo y su importancia para la psicología contemporánea, transitando desde las distintas posturas teóricas existentes hasta las bases neurales implicadas en los procesos.Palabras clave. Memoria de rostros, reconocimiento emocional, modelos teóricos, bases neurales, patologías asociadas.Abstract. Face memory and emotional recognition are really important processes for contemporary psychology. Since Bruce and Young published their model of cognitive organization of face perception processes, in 1986, the knowledge about these two cognitive mechanisms has growth considerably. This knowledge has been enriched by the use of several approaches, for example, neuropsychological, cognitive, and the physiological one, using sometimes the presentation of pictures to recognition and neuroimaging techniques in other times. The knowledge reached in this field has been employed in different areas of psychological sciences like forensic psychology and neuropsychological rehabilitation, among others. The aim of this paper is to summarize the most significant facts reached in the field beginning with theory analysis of different approaches, and ending with the neuropsychological and neural substrates of each process.
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