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A featural account for own-face processing? Looking for support from face inversion, composite face, and part-whole tasks.

Lee, J.K.W., Janssen, S.M.J. and Estudillo, A. J., 2022. A featural account for own-face processing? Looking for support from face inversion, composite face, and part-whole tasks. i-Perception, 13 (4), 1-22.

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DOI: 10.1177/20416695221111409

Abstract

It is widely accepted that face perception relies on holistic processing. However, this holistic advantage is not always found in the processing of the own face. Our study aimed to explore the role of holistic and featural processing in the identification of the own face, using three standard, but largely independent measures of holistic face processing: the face inversion task, the composite face task, and the part-whole task. Participants were asked to identify their face, a friend’s face, and an unfamiliar face in three different experimental blocks: (a) inverted versus upright; (b) top and bottom halves of the face aligned versus misaligned; and (c) facial features presented in isolation versus whole foil face context. Inverting a face impaired its identification, regardless of the identity. However, alignment effects were only found when identifying a friend or an unfamiliar face. In addition, a stronger feature advantage (i.e., better recognition for isolated features compared to in a whole-face context) was observed for the own face compared to the friend and unfamiliar faces. Altogether, these findings suggest that the own face is processed in a more featural manner but also relies on holistic processing. This work also highlights the importance of taking into consideration that different holistic processing paradigms could tap different forms of holistic processing.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:2041-6695
Uncontrolled Keywords:face perception; featural processing; holistic processing; self-face processing
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:37328
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:08 Aug 2022 09:20
Last Modified:08 Aug 2022 09:20

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