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The Role of Familiarity in a Face Classification Task Using Thatcherized Faces
The Role of Familiarity in a Face Classification Task Using Thatcherized Faces
- Source :
- The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 58:1103-1118
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2005.
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Abstract
- Two experiments are reported to test the proposition that facial familiarity influences processing on a face classification task. Thatcherization was used to generate distorted versions of familiar and unfamiliar individuals. Using both a 2AFC (which is “odd”?) task to pairs of images (Experiment 1) and an “odd/normal” task to single images (Experiment 2), results were consistent and indicated that familiarity with the target face facilitated the face classification decision. These results accord with the proposal that familiarity influences the early visual processing of faces. Results are evaluated with respect to four theoretical developments of Valentine's (1991) face-space model, and can be accommodated with the two models that assume familiarity to be encoded within a region of face space.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
media_common.quotation_subject
Face (sociological concept)
050109 social psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Proposition
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
Visual processing
Face space
Perception
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
General Psychology
media_common
05 social sciences
Recognition, Psychology
Cognition
Test (assessment)
Face
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14640740 and 02724987
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....78ea9cd366dc05dffcfa4ede14a0e59e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980443000494