Perceptual integrality of componential and configural information in faces |
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Authors: | Rama Amishav Ruth Kimchi |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Psychology,University of Haifa,Haifa,Israel |
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Abstract: | The relative contribution of componential and configural information to face perception is controversial. We addressed this
issue in the present study by examining how componential information and configural information interact during face processing,
using Garner’s (1974) speeded classification paradigm. When classifying upright faces varying in components (eyes, nose, and
mouth) and configural information (intereyes and nose-mouth spacing), observers could not selectively attend to components
without being influenced by irrelevant variation in configural information, and vice versa, indicating that componential information
and configural information are integral in upright face processing. Performance with inverted faces showed selective attention
to components but not to configural information, implying dominance of componential information in processing inverted faces.
When faces varied only in components, selective attention to different components was observed in upright and inverted faces,
indicating that facial components are perceptually separable. These results provide strong evidence that integrality of componential
and configural information, rather than the relative dominance of either, is the hallmark of upright face perception. |
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