Abstract: Research of ERP on face recognition has developed rapidly in recent years. According to the face recognition model of Bruce and Young, we discussed the meaning, effect, and relationship of each other among all the units. Results revealed the processing process and neural mechanism of face recognition. Furthermore, we pointed out some faults of Bruce and Young抯 face recognition model from a lot of results of ERP study, and tried to provide a modified face recognition model.

Key words: Event related potentials (ERP), face recognition, the model of face recognition