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Mapping the Featural and Holistic Face Processing of Bad and Good Face Recognizers
- Source :
- Behavioral Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 75, p 75 (2021), Behavioral Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 5
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- Individual abilities in face recognition (good versus bad recognizers) were explored by means of event-related potentials (ERPs). The adaptation response profile of the N170 component to whole faces, eyes and mouths was used in order to highlight the crucial role of individual abilities in identity repetition processes for unfamiliar faces. The main point of this study is to underline the importance of characterizing the performance (bad or good) of the participants and to show that behaviorally selected groups might reveal neural differences. Good recognizers showed selective right hemisphere N170 repetition effects for whole faces and not for features. On the contrary, bad recognizers showed a general repetition effect not specifically related to faces and more pronounced processing for features. These findings suggest a different contribution of holistic and featural analysis in bad and good performers. In conclusion, we propose that the N170 might be used as a tool to tease apart face encoding processes as a function of individual differences.
- Subjects :
- Development
event-related potentials
Facial recognition system
050105 experimental psychology
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Behavioral Neuroscience
0302 clinical medicine
Event-related potential
Genetics
medicine
Psychology
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Adaptation (computer science)
individual differences
General Psychology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Point (typography)
Repetition (rhetorical device)
05 social sciences
Neural adaptation
neural adaptation
BF1-990
medicine.anatomical_structure
N170
Face (geometry)
Identity (object-oriented programming)
featural processing
holistic processing
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 75
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Behavioral Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4be5d86e20d99624c531f5103c7ed26f