Recognizing famous people

Butler, Sean; Blais, Caroline; Gosselin, Frédéric; Bub, Daniel N.; Fiset, Daniel

doi:10.3758/app.72.6.1444

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“…Figure 2(e) indicates also that the mouth region was not a particularly salient cue for these particular stimuli. Nevertheless, all three participant groups relied significantly on information in this region (as also found previously Gosselin & Schyns, 2001; though see Butler et al, 2010). The use of these less than salient cues in the typical children and adults suggests that a bias to sub-optimally encode redundant facial features is not unique to autism.…”

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“…Here, they relied significantly upon information in the eye region (particularly the left side eye) and the mouth region, as reported in Butler et al (2010), Caldara et al (2005), Schyns et al (2002). Small idiosyncrasies were observed between these two typical groups, for example, adults consistently also used a left side jawline cue.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Typical adults were included as a secondary comparison group. Their inclusion allowed us to place results from the typical children in a developmental context and to relate findings from this abbreviated bubbles paradigm with those from more exhaustive investigations of identity-related information use (e.g., Butler, Blais, Gosselin, Bub, & Fiset, 2010; Gosselin & Schyns, 2001; Schyns, Bonnar, & Gosselin, 2002). …”

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Atypical information-use in children with autism spectrum disorder during judgments of child and adult face identity

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Pellicano

King

et al. 2018

Developmental Neuropsychology

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Unusual patterns of fixation behavior in individuals with autism spectrum disorder during face tasks hint at atypical processing strategies that could contribute to diminished face expertise in this group. Here, we use the Bubbles reverse correlation technique to directly examine face-processing strategies during identity judgments in children with and without autism, and typical adults. Results support a qualitative atypicality in autistic face processing. We identify clear differences not only in the specific features relied upon for face judgments, but also more generally in the extent to which they demonstrate a flexible and adaptive profile of information use.

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Atypical information-use in children with autism spectrum disorder during judgments of child and adult face identity

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King

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Developmental Neuropsychology

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“…These findings raise the question of how such fast and preconscious processing can be achieved—through a subcortical system (for a review see Tamietto and de Gelder, 2010 but see also Pessoa and Adolphs, 2010) or through a cortical route with a fast feed-forward integration of information (VanRullen and Thorpe, 2001) and activation of the distributed network in the fronto-parietal areas for retrieval of person knowledge. Highly-learned representations of personally familiar faces may also include detectors for visual features—face fragments or more holistic configurations—that are diagnostic for familiar individuals (Butler et al, 2010). The facilitation of familiar face processing that appears to be at least partially independent of attentional resources and awareness may be due to activation of such learned diagnostic feature detectors.…”

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Facilitated detection of social cues conveyed by familiar faces

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Yang

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Recognition of the identity of familiar faces in conditions with poor visibility or over large changes in head angle, lighting and partial occlusion is far more accurate than recognition of unfamiliar faces in similar conditions. Here we used a visual search paradigm to test if one class of social cues transmitted by faces—direction of another's attention as conveyed by gaze direction and head orientation—is perceived more rapidly in personally familiar faces than in unfamiliar faces. We found a strong effect of familiarity on the detection of these social cues, suggesting that the times to process these signals in familiar faces are markedly faster than the corresponding processing times for unfamiliar faces. In the light of these new data, hypotheses on the organization of the visual system for processing faces are formulated and discussed.

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“…Oxytocin has also shown to enhance the ability to infer the mental state of others on a task that requires sensitivity to subtle information from the eye region (Baron-Cohen et al, 2001; Domes et al, 2007). This is relevant to prosopagnosia in that the eye region is highly diagnostic for face recognition (Butler et al, 2010) and that processing of the eye region has been shown to be particularly impaired in prosopagnosics (DeGutis et al, 2012b). Further supporting this link between oxytocin and facial recognition ability, a recent study of 178 families with at least one autistic child found that variation in the oxytocin receptor gene, OXTR , was strongly associated with face recognition performance on the Warrington Face Memory Test (Skuse et al, 2014).…”

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Face processing improvements in prosopagnosia: successes and failures over the last 50 years

DeGutis

Chiu

Grosso

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Clinicians and researchers have widely believed that face processing cannot be improved in prosopagnosia. Though more than a dozen reported studies have attempted to enhance face processing in prosopagnosics over the last 50 years, evidence for effective treatment approaches has only begun to emerge. Here, we review the current literature on spontaneous recovery in acquired prosopagnosia (AP), as well as treatment attempts in acquired and developmental prosopagnosia (DP), differentiating between compensatory and remedial approaches. We find that for AP, rather than remedial methods, strategic compensatory training such as verbalizing distinctive facial features has shown to be the most effective approach (despite limited evidence of generalization). In children with DP, compensatory training has also shown some effectiveness. In adults with DP, two recent larger-scale studies, one using remedial training and another administering oxytocin, have demonstrated group-level improvements and evidence of generalization. These results suggest that DPs, perhaps because of their more intact face processing infrastructure, may benefit more from treatments targeting face processing than APs.

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Recognizing famous people

Cited by 48 publications

References 16 publications

Atypical information-use in children with autism spectrum disorder during judgments of child and adult face identity

Atypical information-use in children with autism spectrum disorder during judgments of child and adult face identity

Facilitated detection of social cues conveyed by familiar faces

Face processing improvements in prosopagnosia: successes and failures over the last 50 years

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