Unfamiliar faces might as well be another species: Evidence from a face matching task with human and monkey faces

IF 1.7 4区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

VISUAL COGNITION Pub Date : 2022-11-26 DOI:10.1080/13506285.2023.2184894

K. Ritchie, Tessa R. Flack, L. Maréchal

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Humans are good at recognizing familiar faces, but are more error-prone at recognizing an unfamiliar person across different images. It has been suggested that familiar and unfamiliar faces are processed qualitatively differently. But are unfamiliar faces at least processed differently from monkey faces? Here we tested 366 volunteers on a face matching test – two images presented side-by-side with participants judging whether the images show the same identity or two different identities – comparing performance with familiar and unfamiliar human faces, and monkey faces. The results showed that performance was most accurate for familiar faces, and was above chance for monkey faces. Although accuracy was higher for unfamiliar humans than monkeys on different identity trials, there was no unfamiliar human advantage over monkeys on same identity trials. The results give new insights into unfamiliar face processing, showing that in some ways unfamiliar faces might as well be another species.

查看原文本刊更多论文

不熟悉的面孔也可能是另一个物种:来自人类和猴子面孔匹配任务的证据

人类擅长识别熟悉的面孔，但在不同图像中识别不熟悉的人更容易出错。有人认为，熟悉和不熟悉的面孔在质上的处理是不同的。但是，至少对陌生面孔的处理与对猴子面孔的处理是不同的吗?在这里，我们对366名志愿者进行了面部匹配测试——两张图片并排呈现，参与者判断这两张图片显示的是相同的身份还是两个不同的身份——比较熟悉的和不熟悉的人脸，以及猴子的脸的表现。结果表明，对于熟悉的面孔，准确率最高，而对于猴子的面孔，准确率更高。尽管在不同身份的实验中，不熟悉的人比猴子的准确率更高，但在相同身份的实验中，不熟悉的人比猴子没有优势。研究结果为不熟悉面孔的处理提供了新的见解，表明在某些方面，不熟悉的面孔也可能是另一种物种。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

VISUAL COGNITION PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

10.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： Visual Cognition publishes new empirical research that increases theoretical understanding of human visual cognition. Studies may be concerned with any aspect of visual cognition such as object, face, and scene recognition; visual attention and search; short-term and long-term visual memory; visual word recognition and reading; eye movement control and active vision; and visual imagery. The journal is devoted to research at the interface of visual perception and cognition and does not typically publish papers in areas of perception or psychophysics that are covered by the many publication outlets for those topics.