Unconscious Familiarity and Local Context Effects on Low-Level Face Processing: A Reconstruction Hypothesis

Montoute, Timothy; Tiberghien, Guy

doi:10.1006/ccog.2001.0524

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“…However, the relationship between familiarity and search asymmetries has shown various results when using facial stimuli. Montoute and Tiberghien (2001) and Masuda (2003) reported that famous faces can be more efficiently detected than unknown faces. Tong and Nakayama (1999) found that subjects searched for their own face more efficiently than other faces.…”

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“…However, visual search tasks have also been increasingly employed to study face perception and recognition (Hansen and Hansen 1988;Levin 1996;Lewis and Edmonds 2005;Montoute and Tiberghien 2001;Nothdurft 1993;Ö hman et al 2001;Senju et al 2005;Suzuki and Cavanagh 1995;Tong and Nakayama 1999;von Grü nau and Anston 1995;Williams et al 2005). In a typical visual-search task, participants are required to report the presence or absence of a predefined target among distractors (Treisman and Gelade 1980).…”

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Visual search for orientation of faces by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): face-specific upright superiority and the role of facial configural properties

Tomonaga

2006

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A previous experiment showed that a chimpanzee performed better in searching for a target human face that differed in orientation from distractors when the target had an upright orientation than when targets had inverted or horizontal orientation [Tomonaga (1999a) Primate Res 15:215-229]. This upright superiority effect was also seen when using chimpanzee faces as targets but not when using photographs of a house. The present study sought to extend these results and explore factors affecting the face-specific upright superiority effect. Upright superiority was shown in a visual search for orientation when caricaturized human faces and dog faces were used as stimuli for the chimpanzee but not when shapes of a hand and chairs were presented. Thus, the configural properties of facial features, which cause an inversion effect in face recognition in humans and chimpanzees, were thought to be a source of the upright superiority effect in the visual search process. To examine this possibility, various stimuli manipulations were introduced in subsequent experiments. The results clearly show that the configuration of facial features plays a critical role in the upright superiority effect, and strongly suggest similarity in face processing in humans and chimpanzees.

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Visual search for orientation of faces by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): face-specific upright superiority and the role of facial configural properties

Tomonaga

2006

Primates

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“…Dalton (1993) made a similar distinction: local context comprises elements encoded uniquely to one or a few stimulus items, as opposed to global context, which is associated with many stimulus items such as a state of being under the influence of a drug or the environment in the test situation (for reviews see Tiberghien 1986; Dalton 1993; Montoute & Tiberghien 2001). The present study is concerned with local context in Dalton's (1993) sense.…”

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What am I doing in Timbuktu: person–environment picture recognition for persons with intellectual disability

Danielsson¹,

Rönnberg²,

Andersson³

2005

J intellect Disabil Res

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Effects of tilted orientations and face-like configurations on visual search asymmetry in macaques

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Visual search asymmetry has been used as an important tool for exploring cognitive mechanisms in humans. Here, we examined visual search asymmetry in two macaques toward two types of stimulus: the orientation of line stimuli and face-like stimuli. In the experiment, the monkeys were required to detect an odd target among numerous uniform distracters. The monkeys detected a tilted-lines target among horizontal- or vertical-lined distracters significantly faster than a horizontal- or vertical-lined target among tilted-lined distracters, regardless of the display size. However, unlike the situation in which inverted-face stimuli were introduced as distracters, this effect was diminished if upright-face stimuli were used as distracters. Additionally, monkeys detected an upright-face target among inverted-face distracters significantly faster than an inverted-face target among upright-face distracters, regardless of the display size. These results demonstrate that macaques can search a target efficiently to detect both tilted lines among non-tilted lines and upright faces among inverted faces. This clarifies that there are several types of visual search asymmetry in macaques.

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Unconscious Familiarity and Local Context Effects on Low-Level Face Processing: A Reconstruction Hypothesis

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Visual search for orientation of faces by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): face-specific upright superiority and the role of facial configural properties

Visual search for orientation of faces by a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes): face-specific upright superiority and the role of facial configural properties

What am I doing in Timbuktu: person–environment picture recognition for persons with intellectual disability

Effects of tilted orientations and face-like configurations on visual search asymmetry in macaques

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