The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Characterizing the Relationship Between Face and Object Processing Across the Face Recognition Spectrum
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The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Characterizing the Relationship Between Face and Object Processing Across the Face Recognition Spectrum. / Hendel, Rebecca Thea Kjærgaard; Starrfelt, Randi; Gerlach, Christian.
I: Perception, Bind 48, Nr. 2, 2019.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Konferenceabstrakt i tidsskrift › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Good, the Bad, and the Average: Characterizing the Relationship Between Face and Object Processing Across the Face Recognition Spectrum
AU - Hendel, Rebecca Thea Kjærgaard
AU - Starrfelt, Randi
AU - Gerlach, Christian
N1 - Conference code: 42
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Face recognition skills vary considerably both in the normal population and in various clinical groups, and understanding the cognitive mechanisms contributing to this variability is important. Here, we examine whether good face recognisers (high performers, HPs) perform better than controls on tests of face, object and word recognition, and whether these domains may be dissociated in HPs. Also, we address the same questions in a group of developmental prosopagnosics (DPs) using the same tests.HPs performed significantly better than matched controls on tests of face and object recognition, as well as a reading test, and there was no evidence of dissociation between these domains. In the DP group, we did find a significant dissociation between face and object recognition and reading performance, indicating that face processing was disproportionally affected in this group.This suggests that face recognition in DPs may be qualitatively different from the normal population. In contrast, the superior performance of HPs is not specific for faces, but persists across visual domains. On this basis, we propose that superior face processing in HPs relies on more general cognitive or perceptual processes shared with object processing. These may be conceived as a general factor in the visual domain.
AB - Face recognition skills vary considerably both in the normal population and in various clinical groups, and understanding the cognitive mechanisms contributing to this variability is important. Here, we examine whether good face recognisers (high performers, HPs) perform better than controls on tests of face, object and word recognition, and whether these domains may be dissociated in HPs. Also, we address the same questions in a group of developmental prosopagnosics (DPs) using the same tests.HPs performed significantly better than matched controls on tests of face and object recognition, as well as a reading test, and there was no evidence of dissociation between these domains. In the DP group, we did find a significant dissociation between face and object recognition and reading performance, indicating that face processing was disproportionally affected in this group.This suggests that face recognition in DPs may be qualitatively different from the normal population. In contrast, the superior performance of HPs is not specific for faces, but persists across visual domains. On this basis, we propose that superior face processing in HPs relies on more general cognitive or perceptual processes shared with object processing. These may be conceived as a general factor in the visual domain.
U2 - 10.1177/0301006619863862
DO - 10.1177/0301006619863862
M3 - Conference abstract in journal
VL - 48
JO - Perception
JF - Perception
SN - 0301-0066
IS - 2
T2 - European Conference on Visual Perception
Y2 - 25 August 2019 through 29 August 2019
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ID: 228814943