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

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

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 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

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.

Face Inversion Effect Emerges Under Critical Configural Discrepancy

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
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.

Visual asymmetries during face encoding Increased dwell time and fixations in the upper and left hemifields

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatima Maria Felisberti
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Visual Field ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Dwell Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Environmental Cues ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
The Right

Visual field asymmetries (VFA) in the encoding of groups rather than individual faces has been rarely investigated. Here, eye movements (dwell time (DT) and fixations (Fix)) were recorded during the encoding of three groups of four faces tagged with cheating, cooperative, or neutral behaviours. Faces in each of the three groups were placed in the upper left (UL), upper right (UR), lower left (LL), or lower right (LR) quadrants. Face recognition was equally high in the three groups. In contrast, the proportion of DT and Fix were higher for faces in the left than the right hemifield and in the upper rather than the lower hemifield. The overall time spent looking at the UL was higher than in the other quadrants. The findings are relevant to the understanding of VFA in face processing, especially groups of faces, and might be linked to environmental cues and/or reading habits.

Face Perception in Face Transplant Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (05) ◽  
pp. 525-533
Author(s):  
Evrim Gülbetekin ◽  
Seda Bayraktar ◽  
Özlenen Özkan ◽  
Hilmi Uysal ◽  
Ömer Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Object Recognition ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Discrimination Performance ◽  
Object Discrimination ◽  
Face Transplantation ◽  
Transplant Patients ◽  
Facial Surgery ◽  
The Face

AbstractThe authors tested face discrimination, face recognition, object discrimination, and object recognition in two face transplantation patients (FTPs) who had facial injury since infancy, a patient who had a facial surgery due to a recent wound, and two control subjects. In Experiment 1, the authors showed them original faces and morphed forms of those faces and asked them to rate the similarity between the two. In Experiment 2, they showed old, new, and implicit faces and asked whether they recognized them or not. In Experiment 3, they showed them original objects and morphed forms of those objects and asked them to rate the similarity between the two. In Experiment 4, they showed old, new, and implicit objects and asked whether they recognized them or not. Object discrimination and object recognition performance did not differ between the FTPs and the controls. However, the face discrimination performance of FTP2 and face recognition performance of the FTP1 were poorer than that of the controls were. Therefore, the authors concluded that the structure of the face might affect face processing.

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