ArticleScientific reports2016
The orientation selectivity of face identification.
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- Horizontal face information is the main gateway to the shape and surface cues to familiar face identity.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Preference for horizontal information in faces predicts typical variations in face recognition but is not impaired in developmental prosopagnosia.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
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- Psychophysical profiles in super-recognizers.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Diagnostic Features for Human Categorisation of Adult and Child Faces.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Profiles on the Orientation Discrimination Processing of Human Faces.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Contrast versus identity encoding in the face image follow distinct orientation selectivity profiles.PloS one · 2020Article
- Orientation Information in Encoding Facial Expressions for People With Central Vision Loss.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2019Article
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- Low-level orientation information for social evaluation in face images.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Article
- Orientation information in encoding facial expressions.Vision research · 2018Article
- Crowding for faces is determined by visual (not holistic) similarity: Evidence from judgements of eye position.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Recent work demonstrates that human face identification is most efficient when based on horizontal, rather than vertical, image structure. Because it is unclear how this specialization for upright (compared to inverted) face processing emerges in the visual system, the present study aimed to systematically characterize the orientation sensitivity profile for face identification. With upright faces, identification performance in a delayed match-to-sample task was highest for horizontally filtered images and declined sharply with oblique and vertically filtered images. Performance was well described by a Gaussian function with a bandwidth around 25°. Face inversion reshaped this sensitivity profile dramatically, with a downward shift of the entire tuning curve as well as a reduction in the amplitude of the horizontal peak and a doubling in bandwidth. The use of naturalistic outer contours (vs. a common outline mask) was also found to reshape this sensitivity profile by increasing sensitivity to oblique information in the near-horizontal range. Altogether, although face identification is sharply tuned to horizontal angles, both inversion and outline masking can profoundly reshape this orientation sensitivity profile. This combination of image- and observer-driven effects provides an insight into the functional relationship between orientation-selective processes within primary and high-level stages of the human brain.
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