A regional composite-face effect for species-specific recognition: Upper and lower halves play different roles in holistic processing of monkey faces

作者：Wang, Zhe; Quinn, Paul C.; Jin, Haiyang; Sun, Yu-Hao P.^*; Tanaka, James W.; Pascalis, Olivier; Lee, Kang^*

来源：Vision Research, 2019, 157: 89-96.

DOI：10.1016/j.visres.2018.03.004

• Face processing
• Face recognition
• Other-race effect
• Species-specific effect
• Composite face task
• Upper vs. lower face

Using a composite-face paradigm, we examined the holistic processing induced by Asian faces, Caucasian faces, and monkey faces with human Asian participants in two experiments. In Experiment 1, participants were asked to judge whether the upper halves of two faces successively presented were the same or different. A composite face effect was found for Asian faces and Caucasian faces, but not for monkey faces. In Experiment 2, participants were asked to judge whether the lower halves of the two faces successively presented were the same or different. A composite-face effect was found for monkey faces as well as for Asian faces and Caucasian faces. Collectively, these results reveal that own-species (i.e., own-race and other-race) faces engage holistic processing in both upper and lower halves of the face, but other-species (i.e., monkey) faces engage holistic processing only when participants are asked to match the lower halves of the face. The findings are discussed in the context of a region based holistic processing account for the species-specific effect in face recognition.

• 出版日期2019-4
• 单位南京大学; 浙江理工大学