Abstract: Self-face Recognition have become the hot topic in face recognition field these years. Three main characteristic of self-face recognition were self-face processing advantage, cultural difference and self-enhancement. Processing contexts and self-related information were two factors affect self-face recognition. The attentional property of self-face recognition was still in debate between priority processing and disengagement. Further research should focus on the search advantage mechanism in explicit self-face recognition task and the brain mechanism of IPA, the attentional property and cognitive mechanism of self-face will be another direction.

Key words: face recognition, self-face, self-face recognition, implicit positive association