scholarly journals Modulation of the composite face effect by unintended emotion cues

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 160867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie L. H. Gray ◽  
Jennifer Murphy ◽  
Jade E. Marsh ◽  
Richard Cook
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Image Matching ◽  
Composite Effect ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Feature Information ◽  
Task Irrelevant ◽  
Sequential Matching ◽  
Composite Face ◽  
Perceived Emotion ◽  
Emotion Cues

When upper and lower regions from different emotionless faces are aligned to form a facial composite, observers ‘fuse’ the two halves together, perceptually. The illusory distortion induced by task-irrelevant (‘distractor’) halves hinders participants' judgements about task-relevant (‘target’) halves. This composite-face effect reveals a tendency to integrate feature information from disparate regions of intact upright faces, consistent with theories of holistic face processing. However, observers frequently perceive emotion in ostensibly neutral faces, contrary to the intentions of experimenters. This study sought to determine whether this ‘perceived emotion’ influences the composite-face effect. In our first experiment, we confirmed that the composite effect grows stronger as the strength of distractor emotion increased. Critically, effects of distractor emotion were induced by weak emotion intensities, and were incidental insofar as emotion cues hindered image matching, not emotion labelling per se . In Experiment 2, we found a correlation between the presence of perceived emotion in a set of ostensibly neutral distractor regions sourced from commonly used face databases, and the strength of illusory distortion they induced. In Experiment 3, participants completed a sequential matching composite task in which half of the distractor regions were rated high and low for perceived emotion, respectively. Significantly stronger composite effects were induced by the high-emotion distractor halves. These convergent results suggest that perceived emotion increases the strength of the composite-face effect induced by supposedly emotionless faces. These findings have important implications for the study of holistic face processing in typical and atypical populations.

scholarly journals Holistic face processing is influenced by non-conscious visual information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyang Jin ◽  
Matt Oxner ◽  
Paul Michael Corballis ◽  
William Hayward
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Visual Information ◽  
Irrelevant Information ◽  
Composite Effect ◽  
Continuous Flash Suppression ◽  
Facial Information ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Composite Face ◽  
Face Task

Holistic face processing has been widely implicated in conscious face perception. Yet, little is known about whether holistic face processing occurs when faces are processed unconsciously. The present study used the composite face task and continuous flash suppression (CFS) to inspect whether the processing of target facial information (the top half of a face) is influenced by irrelevant information (the bottom half) that is presented unconsciously. Results of multiple experiments showed that the composite effect was observed in both the monocular and CFS conditions, providing the first evidence that the processing of top facial halves is influenced by the aligned bottom halves no matter whether they are presented consciously or unconsciously. However, much of the composite effect for faces without masking was disrupted when bottom facial parts were rendered with CFS. These results suggest that holistic face processing can occur unconsciously, but also highlight the significance of holistic processing of consciously presented faces.

scholarly journals The Composite Face Effect Between Young and Older Chinese Adults Remains Stable

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lina Zhang ◽  
Qi Yang ◽  
Werner Sommer ◽  
Changming Chen ◽  
Guiting Guo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Face Perception ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Chinese Adults ◽  
Composite Effect ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Older Chinese ◽  
Older Chinese Adults ◽  
Composite Face

Holistic face perception is often considered to be a cornerstone of face processing. However, the development of the ability to holistically perceive faces in East Asian individuals is unclear. Therefore, we measured and compared holistic face processing in groups of Chinese children, young adults, and older adults by employing the complete composite face paradigm. The results demonstrate a similar magnitude of the composite effect in all three groups although face recognition performance in the task was better in young adults than in the two other groups. These findings suggest that holistic face perception in Eastern individuals is stable from late childhood to at least age 60, whereas face memory may be subject to later development and earlier decline.

The role of holistic face processing in acquired prosopagnosia: evidence from the composite face effect

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Dawn Finzi ◽  
Tirta Susilo ◽  
Jason J. S. Barton ◽  
Bradley C. Duchaine
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Composite Face

The composite face effect in six-year-old children: Evidence of adult-like holistic face processing

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 564-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine J. Mondloch ◽  
Thanujeni Pathman ◽  
Daphne Maurer ◽  
Richard Le Grand ◽  
Scania de Schonen
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Composite Face

Holistic face processing can be independent of gaze behaviour: Evidence from the composite face illusion

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adélaïde Heering ◽  
Bruno Rossion ◽  
Chiara Turati ◽  
Francesca Simion
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Gaze Behaviour ◽  
Composite Face

scholarly journals Are the facial gender and facial age variants of the composite face illusion products of a common mechanism?

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie L. H. Gray ◽  
Yvonne Guillemin ◽  
Zarus Cenac ◽  
Sophie Gibbons ◽  
Tim Vestner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Target Region ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Composite Face

AbstractWhen the upper half of one face (‘target region’) is spatially aligned with the lower half of another (‘distractor region’), the two halves appear to fuse together perceptually, changing observers’ subjective perception of the target region. This ‘composite face illusion’ is regarded as a key hallmark of holistic face processing. Importantly, distractor regions bias observers’ subjective perception of target regions in systematic, predictable ways. For example, male and female distractor regions make target regions appear masculine and feminine; young and old distractor regions make target regions appear younger and older. In the present study, we first describe a novel psychophysical paradigm that yields precise reliable estimates of these perceptual biases. Next, we use this novel procedure to establish a clear relationship between observers’ susceptibility to the age and gender biases induced by the composite face illusion. This relationship is seen in a lab-based sample (N = 100) and is replicated in an independent sample tested online (N = 121). Our findings suggest that age and gender variants of the composite illusion may be different measures of a common structural binding process, with an origin early in the face-processing stream.

scholarly journals Importance of the Inverted Control in Measuring Holistic Face Processing with the Composite Effect and Part-Whole Effect

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elinor McKone ◽  
Anne Aimola Davies ◽  
Hayley Darke ◽  
Kate Crookes ◽  
Tushara Wickramariyaratne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Processing ◽  
Composite Effect ◽  
Holistic Face Processing
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