Aguado Luis, García-Gutierrez Ana, Serrano-Pedraza Ignacio
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2009 Jan;71(1):9-25. doi: 10.3758/APP.71.1.9.
Classification of faces as to their sex or their expression--with sex and expression varying orthogonally--was studied in three experiments. In Experiment 1, expression classification was influenced by sex, with angry male faces being classified faster than angry female faces. Complementarily, sex classification was faster for happy than for angry female faces. In Experiment 2, mutual interaction of sex and expression was also found when the participants were asked to classify top and bottom face segments. In Experiment 3, a face inversion effect was found for both sex and expression classification of whole faces. However, a symmetrical interaction between sex and expression was again found. The results are discussed in terms of configural versus feature processing in the perception of face sex and expression and of their relevance to face perception models that postulate independent processing of different facial features.
在三个实验中研究了根据面部的性别或表情进行分类的情况，其中性别和表情呈正交变化。在实验1中，表情分类受到性别的影响，愤怒男性面孔的分类速度比愤怒女性面孔更快。互补地，快乐女性面孔的性别分类比愤怒女性面孔更快。在实验2中，当要求参与者对面部的上半部分和下半部分进行分类时，也发现了性别和表情的相互作用。在实验3中，发现对面部整体的性别和表情分类都存在面部倒置效应。然而，再次发现了性别和表情之间的对称相互作用。根据面部性别和表情感知中的构型加工与特征加工以及它们与假设不同面部特征独立加工的面部感知模型的相关性，对结果进行了讨论。
