Individual Differences in Serial Dependence of Facial Identity are Associated with Face Recognition Abilities.

ABSTRACT: Serial dependence is a perceptual bias where current perception is biased towards prior visual input. This bias occurs when perceiving visual attributes, such as facial identity, and has been argued to play an important functional role in vision, stabilising the perception of objects through integration. In face identity recognition, this bias could assist in building stable representations of facial identity. If so, then individual variation in serial dependence could contribute to face recognition ability. To investigate this possibility, we measured both the strength of serial dependence and the range over which individuals showed this bias (the tuning) in 219 adults, using a new measure of serial dependence of facial identity. We found that better face recognition was associated with s

SUBMITTER: Turbett K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6888837 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature