scholarly journals Typicality effect on holistic processing in face recognition.

2001 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-68
Author(s):  
Takeo Tsujii
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Typicality Effect

Holistic processing and unitization in face recognition memory.

2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (8) ◽  
pp. 1386-1406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell A. Meltzer ◽  
James C. Bartlett
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Recognition Memory ◽  
Holistic Processing

Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 636-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirta Susilo ◽  
Elinor McKone ◽  
Hugh Dennett ◽  
Hayley Darke ◽  
Romina Palermo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Face Space ◽  
Space Coding

The Part-Whole Effect in super-recognisers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Belanova ◽  
Josh P Davis ◽  
Trevor Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Opposite Direction ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Performance Patterns ◽  
Optimal Viewing Position ◽  
Underlying Processes ◽  
Typical Range ◽  
Viewing Position

Face recognition skills are distributed on a continuum, with developmental prosopagnosics and super-recognisers at the bottom and top ends, respectively. Holistic processing propensity is associated with face recognition ability and may be impaired in some developmental prosopagnosics and enhanced in some super-recognisers. Across two experiments we compared holistic processing of 75 super-recognisers and 89 typical-range ability controls using The Part-Whole Effect (PWE) paradigm. A subgroup of super-recognisers demonstrated enhanced PWEs in the nose region, suggesting they integrate the nose into the holistic face percept more effectively than controls. Focussed processing of the nose region, an optimal viewing position to extract the holistic properties of faces, has previously been associated with superior face recognition, and this may partly explain the superiority of some super-recognisers. However, a few super-recognisers generated significant nose region performance patterns in an opposite direction across both experiments, suggesting their superiority is driven by alternative mechanisms. These results support proposals that super-recognition is associated with heterogeneous underlying processes.

scholarly journals About-face on face recognition ability and holistic processing

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Richler ◽  
R. Jackie Floyd ◽  
Isabel Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Recognition Ability

scholarly journals Holistic processing, contact, and the other-race effect in face recognition

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mintao Zhao ◽  
William G. Hayward ◽  
Isabelle Bülthoff
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Race Effect

scholarly journals Influence of Perceptual Discriminability and Spatial Distance on Holistic Processing of Faces

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao-Chih Wang ◽  
Gary C.-W. Shyi ◽  
Peter Kuan-Hao Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Perception ◽  
Spatial Perception ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Spatial Distance ◽  
Perceptual Discrimination ◽  
The Face ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Composite Face ◽  
Face Task

Background: Holistic processing is defined as the perceptual integration of facial features, and plays an important role in face recognition. While researchers recognize the crucial role played by holistic processing in face perception, a complete delineation of the underlying mechanisms is impending. Very few studies have examined the effects of perceptual discrimination and spatial perception on holistic processing. Hence, the present study aimed to examine the influence of perceptual discrimination and spatial perception on face recognition.Methods: We conducted two experiments by manipulating the perceptual discriminability of the target (the top-half faces) and non-target face (the bottom-half faces) parts in the composite-face task and examined how perceptual discriminability may affect holistic processing of faces.Results: The results of Experiment 1 illustrated that holistic processing was modulated by the perceptual discriminability of the face. Furthermore, differential patterns of perceptual discriminability with the target and non-target parts suggested that different mechanisms may be responsible for the influence of target and non-target parts on face perception. The results of Experiment 2 illustrated that holistic processing was modulated by spatial distance between two faces, implicating that feature-by-feature strategy might decrease the magnitude of holistic processing.Conclusion: The results of the present study suggest that holistic processing may lead to augmented perception effect exaggerating the differences between the two faces and may also be affected by the feature-by-feature strategy.

scholarly journals Early identity recognition of familiar faces is not dependent on holistic processing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Mohr ◽  
Anxu Wang ◽  
Andrew D. Engell
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
List Type ◽  
Perceptual Representation ◽  
Perceptual Memory ◽  
Identity Recognition ◽  
Familiar Face ◽  
Feature Based ◽  
Inverted Face

AbstractIt is widely accepted that holistic processing is critical for early face recognition, but recent work has suggested a larger role for feature-based processing. The earliest step in familiar face recognition is thought to be matching a perceptual representation of a familiar face to a stored representation of that face, which is thought to be indexed by the N250r event-related potential (ERP). In the current face priming studies, we investigated whether this perceptual representation can be effectively activated by feature-based processing. In the first experiment, prime images were familiar whole faces, isolated eyes, or isolated mouths. Whole faces and isolated eyes, but not isolated mouths, effectively modulated the N250r. In the second experiment, prime images were familiar whole faces presented either upright or inverted. Inverted face primes were no less effective than upright face primes in modulating the N250r. Together, the results of these studies indicate that activation of the earliest face recognition processes is not dependent on holistic processing of a typically configured face. Rather, feature-based processing can effectively activate the perceptual memory of a familiar face. However, not all features are effective primes as we found eyes, but not mouths, were effective in activating early face recognition.HighlightsHolistic processing is not necessary for early identity recognition of familiar faces.Inverted faces and isolated features can effectively activate the perceptual memory of a familiar face.This effectiveness was observed for eyes, but not mouths.

scholarly journals The Goldsmiths Unfamiliar Face Memory and Before They Were Adult Tests

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok Jansari ◽  
E. Green ◽  
Francesco Innocenti ◽  
Diego Nardi ◽  
Elena Belanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing ◽  
Face Identification ◽  
Facial Features ◽  
Face Memory ◽  
Face Matching ◽  
Recognition Ability ◽  
Unfamiliar Face ◽  
The Continuum

Unfamiliar face identification ability varies widely in the population. Those at the extreme top and bottom ends of the continuum have been labelled super-recognisers and prosopagnosics, respectively. Here we describe the development of two new tests - the Goldsmiths Unfamiliar Face Memory Test (GUFMT) and the Before They Were Adult Test (BTWA), that have been designed to measure different aspects of face identity ability across the spectrum. The GUFMT is a test of face memory, the BTWA a test of simultaneous adult-to-child face matching. Their designs draw on theories suggesting face identification is achieved by the recognition of facial features, the consistency across time of configurations between those features, and holistic processing of faces as a Gestalt. In four phases, participants (n = 16737), recruited using different methods, allowed evaluations to drive GUFMT development, the creation of likely population norms, as well as correlations with established face recognition tests. Recommendations for criteria for classification of super-recognition ability are also made.

scholarly journals Holistic Processing Predicts Face Recognition

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Richler ◽  
Olivia S. Cheung ◽  
Isabel Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
Face Recognition ◽  
Holistic Processing
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