scholarly journals The affective facial recognition task: The influence of cognitive styles and exposure times

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 102674
Author(s):  
Shuna Peng ◽  
Yang Dong ◽  
Weisha Wang ◽  
Jieyi Hu ◽  
Weiyang Dong
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Recognition Task

scholarly journals Alcohol myopia and the distracting effects of hair in face recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-244
Author(s):  
Alistair J Harvey ◽  
Danny A Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Cognitive Resources ◽  
Exterior Region ◽  
Eyewitness Accuracy ◽  
Alcohol Myopia ◽  
Unfamiliar Face ◽  
Alcohol Myopia Theory ◽  
Full Face ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

Background: According to alcohol myopia theory, alcohol reduces cognitive resources and restricts the drinker’s attention to only the more prominent aspects of a visual scene. As human hairstyles are often salient and serve as important facial recognition cues, we consider whether alcohol restricts attention to this region of faces upon initial viewing. Aims: Participants with higher breath alcohol concentrations just prior to encoding a series of unfamiliar faces were expected to be poorer than more sober counterparts at recognising the internal but not external features of those faces at test. Methods: Drinkers in a nearby bar ( n=76) were breathalysed and then shown a sequence of 21 full face photos. After a filled five-minute retention interval they completed a facial recognition task requiring them to identify the full, internal or external region of each of these among a sequence of 21 previously unseen (part or whole) faces. Results: As predicted, higher breath concentrations were associated with poorer discrimination of internal but not external face regions. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that alcohol restricts unfamiliar face encoding by narrowing the scope of attention to the exterior region of unfamiliar faces. This has important implications for drunk eyewitness accuracy, though further investigation is needed to see if the effect is mediated by gender, hair length and face feature distinctiveness.

Facial affect recognition deficits in bipolar disorder

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
GLEN E. GETZ ◽  
PAULA K. SHEAR ◽  
STEPHEN M. STRAKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Facial Affect ◽  
Affect Recognition ◽  
Facial Affect Recognition ◽  
Benton Facial Recognition Test ◽  
Bipolar Patients

Patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BPD), by definition, have problems with emotional regulation. However, it remains uncertain whether these patients are also deficient at processing other people's emotions, particularly while manic. The present study examined the ability of 25 manic bipolar patients and 25 healthy participants on tasks of facial recognition and facial affect recognition at three different presentation durations: 500 ms, 750 ms, and 1000 ms. The groups did not differ in terms of age, education, sex, ethnicity, or estimated IQ. The groups did not differ significantly on either a novel computerized facial recognition task or the Benton Facial Recognition Test. In contrast, the bipolar group performed significantly more poorly than did the comparison group on a novel facial affect labeling task. Although the patient group had slower reaction times on all 3 computerized tasks, the presentation duration did not have an effect on performance in the patients. This study suggests that patients with bipolar disorder are able to recognize faces, but have difficulty processing facial affective cues. (JINS, 2003, 9, 623–632.)

Effects of Uniqueness, Sex of Subject, and Sex of Photograph on Facial Recognition

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merideth Going ◽  
J. D. Read
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Male And Female

In a face-recognition task, highly unique faces were correctly identified more often than low-unique faces and female faces more frequently than male faces. At both levels of uniqueness, female Ss recognized female faces more frequently than male faces whereas male Ss recognized male and female faces with equal facility.

scholarly journals Changes in Facial Recognition and Facial Expressions with Age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunwoong Ko ◽  
Kisun Kim ◽  
Minju Bae ◽  
Myo-Geong Seo ◽  
Gieun Nam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expression ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Coding System ◽  
Facial Action Coding System ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Lower Face ◽  
Better Than

The ability to express and recognize emotion via facial expressions is well known to change with age. The present study investigated the differences in the facial recognition and facial expression of the elderly (n = 57) and the young (n = 115) and measure how each group uses different facial muscles for each emotion with Facial Action Coding System (FACS). In facial recognition task, the elderly did not recognize facial expressions better than young people and reported stronger feelings of fear and sad from photographs. In making facial expression task, the elderly rated all their facial expressions as stronger than the younger, but in fact, they expressed strong expressions in fear and anger. Furthermore, the elderly used more muscles in the lower face when making facial expressions than younger people. These results help to understand better how the facial recognition and expression of the elderly change, and show that the elderly do not effectively execute the top-down processing concerning facial expression.

scholarly journals Collective memory for American leaders: Measuring recognition for the names and faces of the US presidents

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. e0255209
Author(s):  
Adam L. Putnam ◽  
Sarah Madison Drake ◽  
Serene Y. Wang ◽  
K. Andrew DeSoto
Keyword(s):  
Serial Position ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Serial Position Curve ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
The Us

Collective memory studies show that Americans remember their presidents in a predictable pattern, which can be described as a serial position curve with an additional spike for Abraham Lincoln. However, all prior studies have tested Americans’ collective memory for the presidents by their names. How well do Americans know the faces of the presidents? In two experiments, we investigated presidential facial recognition and compared facial recognition to name recognition. In Experiment 1, an online sample judged whether each of the official portraits of the US presidents and similar portraits of nonpresidents depicted a US president. The facial recognition rate (around 60%) was lower than the name recognition rate in past research (88%), but the overall pattern still fit a serial position curve. Some nonpresidents, such as Alexander Hamilton, were still falsely identified as presidents at high rates. In Experiment 2, a college sample completed a recognition task composed of both faces and names to directly compare the recognition rates. As predicted, subjects recognized the names of the presidents more frequently than the faces. Some presidents were frequently identified by their names but not by their faces (e.g. John Quincy Adams), while others were the opposite (e.g. Calvin Coolidge). Together, our studies show that Americans’ memory for the faces of the presidents is somewhat worse than their memory for the names of the presidents but still follows the same pattern, indicating that collective memories contain more than just verbal information.

Glucose-Induced Enhancement of a Facial Recognition Task in Young Adults

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Metzger ◽  
Marshall Chriswell ◽  
Dana Citrowske ◽  
Jason Scrabeck ◽  
Robert Flint
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Recognition Task
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