Personal familiarity enhances sensitivity to horizontal structure during processing of face identity.
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Serval ID
serval:BIB_7C976E541010
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Personal familiarity enhances sensitivity to horizontal structure during processing of face identity.
Journal
Journal of vision
ISSN
1534-7362 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1534-7362
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/06/2017
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
17
Number
6
Pages
5
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
What makes identification of familiar faces seemingly effortless? Recent studies using unfamiliar face stimuli suggest that selective processing of information conveyed by horizontally oriented spatial frequency components supports accurate performance in a variety of tasks involving matching of facial identity. Here, we studied upright and inverted face discrimination using stimuli with which observers were either unfamiliar or personally familiar (i.e., friends and colleagues). Our results reveal increased sensitivity to horizontal spatial frequency structure in personally familiar faces, further implicating the selective processing of this information in the face processing expertise exhibited by human observers throughout their daily lives.
Keywords
Adult, Face/physiology, Facial Recognition/physiology, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology, Recognition, Psychology/physiology
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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