Categorical perception effects for facial identity in robustly represented familiar and self-faces: The role of configural and featural information

被引:27
作者
Keyes, Helen [1 ]
机构
[1] Anglia Ruskin Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge CB1 1PT, England
关键词
Face processing; Self-face; Categorical perception; Configural and featural processing; Robust representation; NEWLY LEARNED FACES; UNFAMILIAR FACES; OWN FACE; CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES; RECOGNITION; BRAIN; EXPRESSIONS; DISCRIMINATION; INVERSION; FASTER;
D O I
10.1080/17470218.2011.636822
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Categorical perception of robustly represented faces (self, friend) and unfamiliar faces is investigated, and the relative roles of configural and featural information are examined. Participants performed identification and discrimination tasks on morph series containing the self-face and a friend's face (self-Friend 1), two friends' faces (Friend 2-Friend 3), and two unfamiliar faces (Unfamiliar 1-Unfamiliar 2), presented in upright and inverted orientations. For upright faces, categorical perception effects were observed for both familiar morph series but not for the unfamiliar morph series, suggesting that robust representation is a requirement for categorical perception in facial identity. For inverted faces, categorical perception was observed for the self-Friend 1 morph series only. This suggests that categorical perception is tied to configural processing for familiar non-self-faces, but can be observed for self-faces during featural processing-consistent with evidence that self-face representations contain strong configural and featural components. Finally, categorical perception is not enhanced by the presence of the self-face relative to other familiar faces when upright, but shows a trend of being enhanced for self-faces when inverted, adding to the debate on the ways in which robustly represented faces can elicit categorical perception.
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