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Personal familiarity enhances sensitivity to horizontal structure during processing of face identity.

  • Pachai MV Laboratory of Psychophysics, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, SwitzerlandDepartment of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canadamatt.pachai@epfl.ch.
  • Sekuler AB Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
  • Bennett PJ Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
  • Schyns PG Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Ramon M Department of Psychology, Visual and Social Neuroscience, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerlandmeike.ramon@gmail.com.
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  • 2017-06-09
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  • Journal of vision. - 2017
Adult
Face
Facial Recognition
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Recognition, Psychology
English What makes identification of familiar faces seemingly effortless? Recent studies using unfamiliar face stimuli suggest that selective processing of information conveyed by horizontally oriented spatial frequency components supports accurate performance in a variety of tasks involving matching of facial identity. Here, we studied upright and inverted face discrimination using stimuli with which observers were either unfamiliar or personally familiar (i.e., friends and colleagues). Our results reveal increased sensitivity to horizontal spatial frequency structure in personally familiar faces, further implicating the selective processing of this information in the face processing expertise exhibited by human observers throughout their daily lives.
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  • English
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gold
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