Effects of Spatial Frequencies on Recognition of Facial Identity and Facial Expression

Wang, Yamin; Wang, Zhixian; Huang, Yamei; Jiang, Jing; Jin-Hong, Ding

doi:10.3724/sp.j.1041.2011.00373

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“…RTs were also shorter when the frequency of the embedded components of the target word was higher. When both frequency effects were examined within one experiment, interactions between character frequency and compound word frequency were found, although the interaction patterns differed from one study to another (Tse & Yap, 2018; Wang & Peng, 1999). Peng et al (1999) used a factorial design and found facilitative character frequency effects only for frequent compound words.…”

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“…Furthermore, the interaction terms between whole-word frequency and character frequency as well as whole-word frequency and component-word frequency were included in the second step. We included the interaction terms because some previous studies have shown interactive effects between whole-word frequency and character frequency (Cui et al, 2021; Tse & Yap, 2018; Peng et al, 1999; Wang & Peng, 1999; Yan et al, 2006). All independent variables were mean-centered and standardized (Ford et al, 2010).…”

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Competition between parts and whole: A new approach to Chinese compound word processing.

Zhang,

Huang,

2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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How compound words are processed remains a central question in research on Chinese reading. The Chinese reading model assumes that all possible words sharing characters are activated during word processing and these activated words compete for a winner (Li & Pollatsek, 2020). The present studies aimed to examine whether embedded component words compete with whole compound words in Chinese reading. In Study 1, we analyzed two existing lexical decision databases and revealed inhibitory effects of component-word frequency and facilitative effects of character frequency on the first components. In Study 2, we conducted two factorial experiments to further examine the effects of first component-word frequency, with character frequencies controlled. The results consistently indicated significant inhibitory effects of component-word frequency. Collectively, these findings support the theoretical proposition that both component words and compound words are activated and engage in competition during word processing. This provides a new approach to compound word processing in Chinese reading and a possible solution to mixed results of character frequency effects reported in the literature. Public Significance StatementThis study demonstrated that Chinese compound words were processed in a competitive way between whole word and embedded component words. In addition to robust whole-word frequency effects, the component words have inhibitory effects because of competition.

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Competition between parts and whole: A new approach to Chinese compound word processing.

Zhang,

Huang,

2024

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…In the second stage of face recognition, both facial identity recognition and facial expression recognition were affected by spatial frequency information (e.g., Goffaux et al, 2005 ; Goffaux and Rossion, 2006 ; Wang et al, 2011 ). First, White (2002) used the configural/featural change technique to examine the differences between facial identity recognition and facial expression recognition.…”

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“…Then, Goffaux et al (2005) and Goffaux and Rossion (2006) examined the effect of spatial frequency information on facial recognition and found that LSF was related to configural processing, while HSF was related to featural processing. Based on these findings, researchers deduced that facial identity recognition was related to configural processing and depended mainly on LSF; facial expression recognition was related to featural processing and depended mainly on HSF (e.g., White, 2002 ; Goffaux et al, 2005 ; Goffaux and Rossion, 2006 ; Gao and Maurer, 2011 ; Wang et al, 2011 ). Although the view that facial identity recognition depends more on LSF has been relatively unanimously endorsed, researchers have questioned the view that facial expression recognition depends mainly on HSF.…”

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“…The magnocellular channels has a high temporal resolution and a large visual field and can quickly detect facial expressions and produce a rough, holistic visual signal. Thus, it is used mainly for fast-channel facial expression recognition (e.g., Wang et al, 2011 ; Yang et al, 2015 ). According to the above analysis, we believe that facial identity recognition depends mainly on LSF, and facial expression recognition depends on both HSF and LSF.…”

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The Influence of Face Inversion and Spatial Frequency on the Self-Positive Expression Processing Advantage

2018

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Previous research has examined the impact of late self-evaluation, ignoring the impact of the early visual coding stage and the extraction of facial identity information and expression information on the self-positive expression processing advantage. From the perspective of the processing course, this study examined the stability of the self-positive expression processing advantage and revealed its generation mechanism. In Experiment 1, inverted self-expression and others’ expressive pictures were used to influence early structural coding. In Experiments 2a and 2b, we used expression pictures of high and low spatial frequency, thereby affecting the extraction of facial identity information or expression information in the mid-term stage. The visual search paradigm was adopted in three experiments, asking subjects to respond to the target expression. We found that under the above experimental conditions, the search speed for self-faces was always faster than that for self-angry expressions and others’ faces. These results showed that, compared with others’ expressions and self-angry expressions, self-positive expressions were more prominent and more attractive. These findings suggest that self-expression recognition combines with conceptual self-knowledge to form an abstract and constant processing pattern. Therefore, the processing of self-expression recognition was not affected by the facial orientation and spatial frequencies.

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Processing Mandarin Chinese Compound Words by Native Speakers and Second Language Learners: Word Frequency, Semantic Transparency, and Word Structure

Hao,

Wu,

Duan

2024

Sage Open

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This study examined how Chinese native speakers (NSs) and second language (L2) learners process compound words. The findings showed that they used the hybrid model of coexistence for whole word and morphemes; and were influenced by word frequency, semantic transparency, and word structure. The results revealed that two groups of participants used hybrid representation when identifying high-frequency words and whole-word representation when identifying low-frequency words. Besides, semantic transparency might impact word structure awareness, and subject-predicate words were the most difficult to process. The research also showed that L2 learners’ word frequency effect was more robust than NSs’; morpheme location information might affect NSs, but L2 learners could not process it. There was variation in NSs’ speed in recognizing transparent and obscure words, but there was no difference among L2 learners. Besides, L2 learners’ word recognition speed could not reach the levels of NSs.

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Effects of Spatial Frequencies on Recognition of Facial Identity and Facial Expression

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Competition between parts and whole: A new approach to Chinese compound word processing.

Competition between parts and whole: A new approach to Chinese compound word processing.

The Influence of Face Inversion and Spatial Frequency on the Self-Positive Expression Processing Advantage

Processing Mandarin Chinese Compound Words by Native Speakers and Second Language Learners: Word Frequency, Semantic Transparency, and Word Structure

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