Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Germany.
Percept Mot Skills. 2011 Dec;113(3):859-74. doi: 10.2466/07.17.22.PMS.113.6.859-874.
Face recognition involves both processing of information relating to features (e.g., eyes, nose, mouth, hair, i.e., featural processing), as well as the spatial relation between these features (configural processing). In a sequential matching task, participants had to decide whether two faces that differed in either featural or relational aspects were identical or different. In order to test for the microgenesis of face recognition (the development of processing onsets), presentation times of the backward-masked target face were varied (32, 42, 53, 63, 74, 84, or 94 msec.). To test for specific processing onsets and the processing of different facial areas, both featurally and relationally modified faces were manipulated in terms of changes to one facial area (eyes or nose or mouth), two, or three facial areas. For featural processing, an early onset for the eyes and mouth was at 32 msec. of presentation time, but a late onset for the nose was detected. For relationally differing faces, all onsets were delayed.
人脸识别既涉及与特征（例如眼睛、鼻子、嘴巴、头发，即特征处理）有关的信息处理，也涉及这些特征之间的空间关系（构形处理）。在顺序匹配任务中，参与者必须判断两个在特征或关系方面存在差异的人脸是否相同或不同。为了测试人脸识别的微观发生（处理开始的发展），改变了掩蔽后目标脸的呈现时间（32、42、53、63、74、84 或 94 毫秒）。为了测试特定的处理开始和不同面部区域的处理，通过改变一个面部区域（眼睛、鼻子或嘴巴）、两个或三个面部区域来操纵特征和关系上都改变的人脸。对于特征处理，眼睛和嘴巴的早期开始呈现时间为 32 毫秒，但鼻子的开始呈现时间较晚。对于关系上不同的人脸，所有开始呈现时间都延迟了。
