Facing Visual Tasks Based on Different Cognitive Architectures

Ruiz-Soler, Marcos; Beltran, Francesco S.

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“…For example, holistic processing is less efficient in some tasks than the processing of specific features (Harel and Bentin 2009), probably because the kind of categorization required by the task means that some specific features become diagnostic. The role of the task in face recognition has been pointed out (e.g., Ruiz-Soler and Beltran 2007), but the hierarchy of features found in our study may provide a tool for selecting the stimuli used in studies to establish the role of facial features based on perceptual task demands.…”

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The Relative Salience of Facial Features When Differentiating Faces Based on an Interference Paradigm

Ruiz-Soler

Beltran

2012

J Nonverbal Behav

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Research on face recognition and social judgment usually addresses the manipulation of facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.). Using a procedure based on a Stroop-like task, Montepare and Opeyo (J Nonverbal Behav 26(1):43-59, 2002) established a hierarchy of the relative salience of cues based on facial attributes when differentiating faces. Using the same perceptual interference task, we established a hierarchy of facial features. Twenty-three participants (13 men and 10 women) volunteered for the experiment to compare pairs of frontal faces. The participants had to judge if the eyes, nose, mouth and chin in the pair of images were the same or different. The factors manipulated were the target-distractive factor (4 face components 9 3 distractive factors), interference (absent vs. present) and correct answer (the same vs. different). The analysis of reaction times and errors showed that the eyes and mouth were processed before the chin and nose, thus highlighting the critical importance of the eyes and mouth, as shown by previous research.

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