Megreya Ahmed M, Bindemann Markus
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt.
Perception. 2009;38(12):1831-48. doi: 10.1068/p6385.
Five experiments are reported in which the relative importance of internal and external features for unfamiliar face identification are examined by a matching task. In experiments 1-3, Egyptian adults showed a robust internal-feature advantage for matching photographs of Egyptian faces. In experiment 4, a cross-cultural comparison between the ability of Egyptian and British adults to match the internal and external features of unfamiliar Egyptian and British faces was made. Once again, Egyptians showed an internal-feature advantage, for all faces. In contrast, British observers and also Egyptian children in experiment 5--showed external-feature advantages consistent with previous research. We attribute this contrast to the long-term experience of Egyptians in perceiving and recognising faces with headscarves, which might develop more expertise in processing the internal than the external features of unfamiliar faces.
本文报告了五项实验，通过匹配任务研究了内部和外部特征在不熟悉面孔识别中的相对重要性。在实验1-3中，埃及成年人在匹配埃及面孔照片时表现出显著的内部特征优势。在实验4中，对埃及和英国成年人匹配不熟悉的埃及和英国面孔的内部和外部特征的能力进行了跨文化比较。埃及人再次在所有面孔上表现出内部特征优势。相比之下，英国观察者以及实验5中的埃及儿童——表现出与先前研究一致的外部特征优势。我们将这种差异归因于埃及人在感知和识别戴头巾面孔方面的长期经验，这可能使他们在处理不熟悉面孔的内部特征而非外部特征方面发展出更多专业技能。
