Perceptual expertise with objects predicts another hallmark of face perception.

ABSTRACT: There is no shortage of evidence to suggest that faces constitute a special category in human perception. Surprisingly little consensus exists, however, regarding the interpretation of these results. The question persists: what makes faces special? We address this issue via one hallmark of face perception-its striking sensitivity to low-level image format-and present evidence in favor of an expertise account of the specialization of face perception. In accordance with earlier work (I. Biederman & P. Kalocsai, 1997), we find that manipulating one image into two versions that are complementary in spatial frequency (SF) and orientation information disproportionately impairs face matching relative to object matching. Here, we demonstrate that this characteristic of face processing is also foun

SUBMITTER: McGugin RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2904397 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature