When Feature Information Comes First! Early Processing of Inverted Faces

We investigated the early stages of face recognition and the role of featural and holistic face information. We exploited the fact that, on inversion, the alienating disorientation of the eyes and mouth in thatcherised faces is hardly detectable. This effect allows featural and holistic information to be dissociated and was used to test specific face-processing hypotheses. In inverted thatcherised faces, the cardinal features are already correctly oriented, whereas in undistorted faces, the whole Gestalt is coherent but all information is disoriented. Experiment 1 and experiment 3 revealed that, for inverted faces, featural information processing precedes holistic information. Moreover, the processing of contextual information is necessary to process local featural information within a short presentation time (26 ms). Furthermore, for upright faces, holistic information seems to be available faster than for inverted faces (experiment 2). These differences in processing inverted and upright faces presumably cause the differential importance of featural and holistic information for inverted and upright faces.

Download Full-text

Recognizing expression from familiar and unfamiliar faces

Pragmatics & Cognition ◽

10.1075/pc.8.1.07bau ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 123-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jean Yves Baudouin ◽

Stéphane Sansone ◽

Guy Tiberghien

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Mouth Region ◽

Presentation Time ◽

Short Presentation Time ◽

The Relationship ◽

Unfamiliar Faces ◽

Black Rectangle ◽

Short Presentation ◽

Better Than

The aim of this study was to clarify the relationship between accessing the identity of a face and making decisions about its expression. Three experiments are reported in which undergraduate subjects made expression decisions about familiar and unfamiliar faces. The decision was slowed either by concealing the mouth region with a black rectangle (experiment 1) or by using a short presentation time (experiments 2 and 3). Results of experiment 1 showed that subjects recognized the displayed expression of celebrities better than those of unknown persons when information from the mouth was not available. Results of experiment 2 showed that they recognized the expression displayed by celebrities more easily when the presentation time was short. Experiment 3, using familiarized faces, replicated the results of experiments 1 and 2 and ruled out a possible explanation of these results by the use of some identity specific representations that are expressive. Implications for face recognition models are discussed.

Download Full-text

Age-related modifications of contextual information processing in rats: role of emotional reactivity, arousal and testing procedure

Behavioural Brain Research ◽

10.1016/s0166-4328(00)00223-0 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 114 (1-2) ◽

pp. 153-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Valérie Doyère ◽

Pascale Gisquet-Verrier ◽

Benedetta de Marsanich ◽

Martine Ammassari-Teule

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Emotional Reactivity ◽

Contextual Information ◽

Testing Procedure ◽

Age Related

Download Full-text

Moderators of the confidence-accuracy correlation in face recognition: The role of information processing and base-rates

Applied Cognitive Psychology ◽

10.1002/acp.2350030202 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 95-107 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Brian L. Cutler ◽

Steven D. Penrod

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Face Recognition ◽

Base Rates ◽

Role Of Information

Download Full-text

Recognising the Ageing Face: The Role of Age in Face Processing

Perception ◽

10.1068/p271123 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 27 (9) ◽

pp. 1123-1134 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Patricia A George ◽

Graham J Hole

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Facial Expression ◽

Face Processing ◽

Exact Match ◽

Age Related ◽

The Face ◽

Facial Changes ◽

Induced Changes ◽

Age Related Changes

The effects of age-induced changes on face recognition were investigated as a means of exploring the role of age in the encoding of new facial memories. The ability of participants to recognise each of six previously learnt faces was tested with versions which were either identical to the learnt faces, the same age (but different in pose and expression), or younger or older in age. Participants were able to cope well with facial changes induced by ageing: their performance with older, but not younger, versions was comparable to that with faces which differed only in pose and expression. Since the large majority of different age versions were recognised successfully, it can be concluded that the process of recognition does not require an exact match in age characteristics between the stored representation of a face and the face currently in view. As the age-related changes explored here were those that occur during the period of growth, this in turn implies that the underlying structural physical properties of the face are (in addition to pose and facial expression) invariant to a certain extent.

Download Full-text

Modelling face recognition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.1992.0015 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 335 (1273) ◽

pp. 121-128 ◽

Cited By ~ 55

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Face Processing ◽

Predictive Power ◽

Potential Role ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Task Demands ◽

Functional Models ◽

The Face ◽

Interactive Activation

Much early work in the psychology of face processing was hampered by a failure to think carefully about task demands. Recently our understanding of the processes involved in the recognition of familiar faces has been both encapsulated in, and guided by, functional models of the processes involved in processing and recognizing faces. The specification and predictive power of such theory has been increased with the development of an implemented model, based upon an ‘interactive activation and competition’ architecture. However, a major deficiency in most accounts of face processing is their failure to spell out the perceptual primitives that form the basis of our representations for faces. Possible representational schemes are discussed, and the potential role of three-dimensional representations of the face is emphasized.

Download Full-text

Word and Face Recognition Processing Based on Response Times and Ex-Gaussian Components

Entropy ◽

10.3390/e23050580 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 23 (5) ◽

pp. 580

Author(s):

Carmen Moret-Tatay ◽

David García-Ramos ◽

Begoña Sáiz-Mauleón ◽

Daniel Gamermann ◽

Cyril Bertheaux ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Face Processing ◽

Response Times ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Masked Priming ◽

Priming Task ◽

The Social ◽

Social Abilities ◽

The Face

The face is a fundamental feature of our identity. In humans, the existence of specialized processing modules for faces is now widely accepted. However, identifying the processes involved for proper names is more problematic. The aim of the present study is to examine which of the two treatments is produced earlier and whether the social abilities are influent. We selected 100 university students divided into two groups: Spanish and USA students. They had to recognize famous faces or names by using a masked priming task. An analysis of variance about the reaction times (RT) was used to determine whether significant differences could be observed in word or face recognition and between the Spanish or USA group. Additionally, and to examine the role of outliers, the Gaussian distribution has been modified exponentially. Famous faces were recognized faster than names, and differences were observed between Spanish and North American participants, but not for unknown distracting faces. The current results suggest that response times to face processing might be faster than name recognition, which supports the idea of differences in processing nature.

Download Full-text

Face Inversion Effect Emerges Under Critical Configural Discrepancy

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000018 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 69 (3) ◽

pp. 161-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jisien Yang ◽

Adrian Schwaninger

Keyword(s):

Face Recognition ◽

Face Processing ◽

Underlying Mechanism ◽

Inversion Effect ◽

Configural Processing ◽

Major Contributor ◽

Face Inversion Effect ◽

Configural Information ◽

Face Inversion ◽

The Face

Configural processing has been considered the major contributor to the face inversion effect (FIE) in face recognition. However, most researchers have only obtained the FIE with one specific ratio of configural alteration. It remains unclear whether the ratio of configural alteration itself can mediate the occurrence of the FIE. We aimed to clarify this issue by manipulating the configural information parametrically using six different ratios, ranging from 4% to 24%. Participants were asked to judge whether a pair of faces were entirely identical or different. The paired faces that were to be compared were presented either simultaneously (Experiment 1) or sequentially (Experiment 2). Both experiments revealed that the FIE was observed only when the ratio of configural alteration was in the intermediate range. These results indicate that even though the FIE has been frequently adopted as an index to examine the underlying mechanism of face processing, the emergence of the FIE is not robust with any configural alteration but dependent on the ratio of configural alteration.

Download Full-text