Ensemble coding of facial identity is not refined by experience
Evidence from other-race and inverted faces
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5268854 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emily E Davis (0000-0002-6985-8529, Brock University St. Catharines Ontario Canada), Claire M Matthews (0000-0001-8605-8067, Brock University St. Catharines Ontario Canada), Catherine J Mondloch (0000-0002-6238-1238, Brock University St. Catharines Ontario Canada, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 265-281 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1269 • E-ISSN: 2044-8295 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/bjop.12457 |
| PMID | 32740911 |
| OpenAlex | W3036699935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 81 |
The ability to recognize identity despite within-person variability in appearance is likely a face-specific skill and shaped by experience. Ensemble coding - the automatic extraction of the average of a stimulus array - has been proposed as a mechanism underlying face learning (allowing one to recognize novel instances of a newly learned face). We investigated whether ensemble encoding, like face learning and recognition, is refined by experience by testing participants with upright own-race faces and two categories of faces with which they lacked experience: other-race faces (Experiment 1) and inverted faces (Experiment 2). Participants viewed four images of an unfamiliar identity and then were asked whether a test image of that same identity had been in the study array. Each test image was a matching exemplar (from the array), matching average (the average of the images in the array), non-matching exemplar (a novel image of the same identity), or non-matching average (an average of four different images of the same identity). Adults showed comparable ensemble coding for all three categories (i.e., reported that matching averages had been present more than non-matching averages), providing evidence that this early stage of face learning is not shaped by face-specific experience
Coding (social sciences) · Cognitive psychology · Face (sociological concept) · Face perception · Facial recognition system · Identity (music) · Linguistics · Matching (statistics) · Pattern recognition (psychology) · Perception · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Face recognition and analysis · Face Recognition and Perception · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |