scholarly journals Differences in Face Recognition Ability Predicts Patterns of Holistic Face Processing in Children

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 572-572
Author(s):  
S. Corrow ◽  
T. Donlon ◽  
J. Mathison ◽  
V. Adamson ◽  
A. Yonas
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Recognition Ability

Using regression to measure holistic face processing reveals a strong link with face recognition ability

Cognition ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph DeGutis ◽  
Jeremy Wilmer ◽  
Rogelio J. Mercado ◽  
Sarah Cohan
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Strong Link ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Recognition Ability

Reduced spatial integration in the ventral visual cortex underlies face recognition deficits in developmental prosopagnosia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Witthoft ◽  
Sonia Poltoratski ◽  
Mai Nguyen ◽  
Golijeh Golarai ◽  
Alina Liberman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Visual Cortex ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Receptive Fields ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Brain Abnormalities ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Visual Areas ◽  
Retinotopic Organization

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is characterized by deficits in face recognition without gross brain abnormalities. However, the neural basis of DP is not well understood. We measured population receptive fields (pRFs) in ventral visual cortex of DPs and typical adults to assess the contribution of spatial integration to face processing. While DPs showed typical retinotopic organization of ventral visual cortex and normal pRF sizes in early visual areas, we found significantly reduced pRF sizes in face-selective regions and in intermediate areas hV4 and VO1. Across both typicals and DPs, face recognition ability correlated positively with pRF size in both face-selective regions and VO1, whereby participants with larger pRFs perform better. However, face recognition ability is correlated with both pRF size and ROI volume only in face-selective regions. These findings suggest that smaller pRF sizes in DP may reflect a deficit in spatial integration affecting holistic processing required for face recognition.

scholarly journals Holistic face processing and hemispheric competition during face recognition

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1077
Author(s):  
Matthew Harrison ◽  
Lars Strother
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing

scholarly journals Predicting Face Recognition Skills in Children from Holistic Face Processing and Eye Tracking

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 104-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Corrow ◽  
T. Donlon ◽  
J. Mathison ◽  
V. Adamson ◽  
A. Yonas
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Holistic Face Processing

scholarly journals Image or identity? Only Super-Recognizers’ 
(memor)ability is consistently viewpoint-invariant

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Nador ◽  
Tamara A Alsheimer ◽  
Ayla Gay ◽  
Meike Ramon
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Visual Features ◽  
Facial Identity ◽  
Face Images ◽  
Facial Information ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Processing Ability ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Do So

A face’s memorability refers to the unique combination of its intrinsic visual features facilitating its later recognition. Despite considerable variation in face recognition ability amongst the general population, individuals show substantial concordance regarding the memorability of various faces. And, when the viewpoints across which identities are seen at encoding and recognition differ, such agreement persists, though to a lesser extent. Consequently, face recognition cannot rely solely on image-dependent encoding; individuals must extract some invariant facial information, robust to changes in viewpoint, to do so consistently. However, whether such consistency covaries with overall face processing ability is unclear. Here, therefore, in two experiments we tested recognition of (i) implicitly encoded face images and (ii) explicitly encoded identities in a group of normal control observers against a group of “Super-Recognizers” (SRs) who possess exceptional face processing skills. When implicit encoding was surreptitiously solicited, recognition of studied images was comparable between groups. Yet, when encoding was explicitly solicited, SRs more accurately recognized studied identities across viewpoint changes than normal observers. Critically, image-dependent information could only inform recognition in the first experiment, whereas viewpoint-invariant information could inform recognition consistently in both. Individualized profiles of observers’ performance (as a function of stimulus memorability) reveal that only SRs performed consistently between experiments. We suggest that SRs’ unique capacity for utilizing viewpoint-invariant information for recognition, regardless of encoding conditions, is rooted in fundamentally more accurate and robust representations of identity-based memorability. These results invite a reinterpretation of face memorability that describes viewpoint-invariant information, diagnostic of facial identity representations in memory.

scholarly journals Individual recognition is associated with holistic face processing in Polistes paper wasps in a species-specific way

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1943) ◽  
pp. 20203010
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Tibbetts ◽  
Juanita Pardo-Sanchez ◽  
Julliana Ramirez-Matias ◽  
Aurore Avarguès-Weber
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Individual Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Paper Wasp ◽  
Paper Wasps ◽  
Wasp Species ◽  
Face Images ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Species Specific

Most recognition is based on identifying features, but specialization for face recognition in primates relies on a different mechanism, termed ‘holistic processing’ where facial features are bound together into a gestalt which is more than the sum of its parts. Here, we test whether individual face recognition in paper wasps also involved holistic processing using a modification of the classic part-whole test in two related paper wasp species: Polistes fuscatus , which use facial patterns to individually identify conspecifics, and Polistes dominula , which lacks individual recognition. We show that P. fuscatus use holistic processing to discriminate between P. fuscatus face images but not P. dominula face images. By contrast, P. dominula do not rely on holistic processing to discriminate between conspecific or heterospecific face images. Therefore, P. fuscatus wasps have evolved holistic face processing, but this ability is highly specific and shaped by species-specific and stimulus-specific selective pressures. Convergence towards holistic face processing in distant taxa (primates, wasps) as well as divergence among closely related taxa with different recognition behaviour ( P. dominula , P. fuscatus ) suggests that holistic processing may be a universal adaptive strategy to facilitate expertise in face recognition.

When context hinders! Learn–test compatibility in face recognition

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Leder ◽  
Claus-Christian Carbon
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Facial Feature ◽  
Distraction Effect ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Full Face

Some theories of holistic face processing propose that parts in faces (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.) are not explicitly represented. So far, the empirical evidence has shown that whole-to-part superiority is found when wholes are learned. We substantiated this using photographic faces. More importantly, we investigated whether learning parts also reveals holistic effects. This has not been attempted before. Four experiments showed that after learning facial parts, recognition of these parts was disrupted when the part was shown in the full face. This distraction effect was strongest when perceivers were not directed to focus on a particular facial feature. Thus, it is very difficult to ignore irrelevant parts in faces. In fact, this might be the essence of holistic face processing.

scholarly journals Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 171228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franziska Knolle ◽  
Rita P. Goncalves ◽  
A. Jennifer Morton
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Ovis Aries ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Holistic Face Processing ◽  
Social Animals ◽  
Processing Abilities ◽  
Human Faces ◽  
Unfamiliar Faces

One of the most important human social skills is the ability to recognize faces. Humans recognize familiar faces easily, and can learn to identify unfamiliar faces from repeatedly presented images. Sheep are social animals that can recognize other sheep as well as familiar humans. Little is known, however, about their holistic face-processing abilities. In this study, we trained eight sheep ( Ovis aries ) to recognize the faces of four celebrities from photographic portraits displayed on computer screens. After training, the sheep chose the ‘learned-familiar’ faces rather than the unfamiliar faces significantly above chance. We then tested whether the sheep could recognize the four celebrity faces if they were presented in different perspectives. This ability has previously been shown only in humans. Sheep successfully recognized the four celebrity faces from tilted images. Interestingly, there was a drop in performance with the tilted images (from 79.22 ± 7.5% to 66.5 ± 4.1%) of a magnitude similar to that seen when humans perform this task. Finally, we asked whether sheep could recognize a very familiar handler from photographs. Sheep identified the handler in 71.8 ± 2.3% of the trials without pretraining. Together these data show that sheep have advanced face-recognition abilities, comparable with those of humans and non-human primates.

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