In the conventional eigenface method, the princi-One of many important issues in face recognition is to seple component analysis (PCA) algorithm associates the Eigen lect efficient facial image representations. Among appearancevectors with the changes in illumination. In this paper, we based facial image representations, eigenfaces [5], [6], fisherpropose an improvement of facial image association for face f recognition using a cognitive processing model. This method faces [5], [7], and gaborfaces [8] have proved to be effective is based on the notion of multiple-phase associative memory. on large databases. Principle component analysis (PCA) [6], The Essex face database is used to verify our model for facial independent component analysis (ICA) [9], and linear disimage recognition and compare the results of face recognition criminant analysis (LDA) [7] perform statistical dimensional with conventional eigenface method. The simulation results show reduction to capture the de-cofrelation among stored images.that the proposed cognitive processing model approach results